If you’re such a fucking clairvoyant, Miss Trained-under-the-Oracle, then why didn’t you prepare a better argument for Miss If-we-just-start-cutting-off-thumbs-from-the-word-go-then-we’ll-get-our-answers-a-lot-sooner-yeah? Or, like, drug her wine, maybe?
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Malinque: (getting frustrated) You visited Saddarhta, did you not? The City of the Oracle? And the Perdwatan trading post of Tarouf? And you assisted the Centaurs of Ati, did you not?
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Bea: We didn’t tell anyone what we were doing!
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Mainque: Shapeshifting is not my only magical skill. I myself trained under The Oracle–
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Bea: Oh, how fucking convenient–
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Malinque: –and was hired as a diplomat to strengthen relations between Saddarhta and Pachti, and since I was tutored by Jovian missionaries–
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Bea: Well aren’t you just a talented little–
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Malinque: (tears in eyes) WHAT CAN I SAY! What can I say to make you believe me!
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Bea: (stands up, hands on table) Show me who you really are, because that isn’t your real shape!
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Lysander: STOP IT!
