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[shiningdown]

[When the device clicks on there is some silence muddled by the background noise of the forest at night, albeit a presently uneventful corner of it. Well, sort of. Then there is a breath, not quite a sigh or anything so quickly named, but a sound that can amount to a combination of distaste and upset.]There ought to be a law of some kind against

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[nobodyneedknow]

A unicorn?

Well that seems rather dramatic.

[shiningdown]

That's exactly what it was, Dorian. A unicorn.

And there is nothing dramatic about its being so.

[nobodyneedknow]

No, to kill one, not it being one. No need to be defensive, Yvaine, I didn't murder the bloody thing.

[shiningdown]

[Someday, she will be queen. Have some of that now, an almost eerie evenness in her tone, though also some undercurrent of you wouldn't dare, having more to do with her anger than what he really would or wouldn't be capable of.]

I'm well aware that you didn't.

[The differences between Dorian Gray and Caspian X have been more obvious to the star than others already, but now especially they come out, and the starkness is an unforgiving one.]

[nobodyneedknow]

[Dorian is either oblivious, or he just doesn't care. One or the other]

Then there's really no need to snap at me.