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[badlydisarmed]

I have one question and one important announcement.

The question:

Do you pull the lever?

As for the announcement, the hospital now has a wing to treat magical maladies. Witch doctors and the like are welcome to come check it out. People with magical maladies also welcome to come get treated, I don't know how any of this shit works.

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[quibblingfunctionary]

Yet you knew of whom I was referring.

Most assuredly so. Tell me, why does one so weak as yourself antagonize the strong?

[badlydisarmed]

Exposure therapy. This is good for him.

[quibblingfunctionary]

How kind of you to consider my liege's needs, however if he had need to entertain any inane questions he could simply speak to a child.

[badlydisarmed]

I don't follow. Why do you think your super cool daddy figure needs you to protect him from me? I'm genuinely curious about the logic.

[quibblingfunctionary]

I should apologize— had I known I was speaking to a child I would have ignored you as your parents have so clearly done.

[badlydisarmed]

No one has ever truly loved me.

Except my dog. I miss her terribly.

[quibblingfunctionary]

[The sarcasm/humor of this missive goes straight over Sleipnir's head, and he now thinks that Romano is a strange lonely man whom has issues.]

I have been given the impression one can request their beloved pets with enough Good Boy Points from Aurora.

[badlydisarmed]

[ Sleipnir isn't wrong, but RUDE. ]

She died before I did, and I wouldn't want her in this nightmare. Too stressful.

[ This might be the most honest comment he's made today. ]

[quibblingfunctionary]

[Sleipnir arriving at the correct conclusion from a misunderstanding. Sounds about right.
He's now a little flummoxed at the outright kindness Romano is displaying here. Not that it is directed at Sleipnir, but it's still surprising there is any at all.]

I see. Have you considered taking in one of the animals already present here in Etraya?

[Perhaps then this Romano fellow would be less of a sour lemon.]

[badlydisarmed]

Nah, emotional attachments are a problem in survival scenarios. I'm not doing that to myself.

[quibblingfunctionary]

Oh, I see. You never recovered from the loss of your dog.

[He knows someone like that.]

[badlydisarmed]

You know what? Sure, let's go with that.