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[Private to the Admiral, visible to Angelica]
I don't know, M. Admiral, whether you heed requests from inmates, but I see no harm in trying.
Once I had a small metal brain-teaser puzzle, small enough to fit in a pocket. One half was a ring carved with a labyrinth design, the other half a broken ring that had to be passed through the other half to ( Read more... )
I don't know, M. Admiral, whether you heed requests from inmates, but I see no harm in trying.
Once I had a small metal brain-teaser puzzle, small enough to fit in a pocket. One half was a ring carved with a labyrinth design, the other half a broken ring that had to be passed through the other half to ( Read more... )
If the Admiral does not heed your request, I shall bring it to his attention myself. Would this puzzle be a totem, madam, or simply a reminder of home?
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And yes, it is a totem. I thought it would be good to have one again.
It's been some time since we spoke last, Angelica.
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Aye, it has, madam. I must apologise for the tone I struck with you during the prior week. I was terribly unfair to you, and certainly not myself.
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I understand, of course, and I hold nothing against you. But where are you? I have seen your husband, but not you.
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I assume that you have seen the woman named Ariadne has returned to the Barge.
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[She wants to ask, why then move, but the comment about Ariadne puts paid to that.]
Yes. She appears to have forgotten being here.
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We've not spoken much of her, you and I. I learned certain things about her from Mr. Eames and Mr. Grayson just after her unexpected departure.
Did you know of her?
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I learned later from Arthur that she apparently did not know how to keep her mouth shut. This one-well, they know the same things, I think, though she has not-or believes she has not been here before, and she swears she would have never talked as she did before-oh, it's all wretchedly confusing. We have spoken, but I have no particular wish to talk to her anymore.
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Mal, what does she know? What have you been told of her?
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I think he has told her everything, Angelica. More even than he told Arthur.
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I cannot fathom the damage she might have done - the damage she has done, in not speaking to me but speaking to others instead. She might have ruined-
Aye, I think it best you do not speak to her.
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Why would he confide in a girl he barely knew?
[An answer has suggested itself already, of course, and it makes Mal rage.]
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Shall I speak to the woman, madam, and suggest she keep her distance from you?
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