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[shall_yield_us]

Well, now, my naked Emperors, you've all worn sheer cloth very well under one night's spell. The one excepted. That calls for no words, though maybe swords, and hands to use them.

But above and beyond that -

A HUNT FOR NAMES

...so adjourned, and I shall have three, and ample reward, this time, no sword, for he or she or it to recommend them:

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[one_that_leads]

Names...

[Sup? NM, NM, just chillin', bein' injured.]

[shall_yield_us]

The thing by which each volume of matter is designated, Katan. Haha, pretty human invention, isn't it?

[one_that_leads]

Yes, I know. You gave me a name, Lord Rosiel.

[As if Katan could, like, ever forget...]

[shall_yield_us]

And you failed to measure to it.

[one_that_leads]

Forgive me.

[shall_yield_us]

Yes, no, maybe, who's to say - you're sick. You're still sick, why are you sick?

[one_that_leads]

I am mending...

[shall_yield_us]

So you tell me, and so I listen, but I need you well enough to move.

...there're matters at hand.

[one_that_leads]

What matters?

[shall_yield_us]

Oh, this, that, the other - and you'll want to see the fountain, of course, or be baptized in it, and the gardens - you do like gardens, don't you? We buried so many in them.

[one_that_leads]

[Buried one, at least.]

Yes. Of course.

[shall_yield_us]

...Katan, I don't suppose you would, or should - no one truly should, he's a wretch and a beast - but you remember Raphael, don't you? Our good Lord of All Virtues?

[one_that_leads]

Yes, I remember him.

[shall_yield_us]

He wants you, isn't that kind?

[one_that_leads]

Why?

[shall_yield_us]

To heal you, that heathen. Oh, don't weep, he's... a gentle hand.