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[hispoisonsmile]

My. I've never known a gift to not have a price.. so what prices will we all be paying for this so-called generosity? Perhaps I'm simply too accustomed to the games the courts play. It's rather difficult to look at it all with anything but suspicion.

I should have wished for my health. That would've been a lovely gift. Though the price for

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[hakai_aniki]

Someone else is suspicious of this, I see!

[hispoisonsmile]

Ah.. yes, I suppose I am. I don't really trust gifts.

[hakai_aniki]

I don't trust the 'strange events' of this city. People are conveniently overlooking this one because it seems pleasant to most of them.

[hispoisonsmile]

This sort of thing happens often, then? I'm afraid I haven't been here terribly long.

[hakai_aniki]

Yes... and no. Wish fulfillment doesn't fit the usual pattern.

[hispoisonsmile]

They normally have a pattern?