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[imperceptus]

do you suppose it is ever truly possible to escape the circumstances of your birth?
to escape destiny?

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text » username: ilikehorses

[shoplifter]

I hope so.

Otherwise we are in trouble.

[She figures the person typing is referring to their own lives, anyway.]

[imperceptus]

i am most definitely in trouble

especially if i ever leave here.

[shoplifter]

What is the danger? Is someone after you?

[imperceptus]

multiple someones

various gangs

mercenaries

sellswords

you get the idea

[shoplifter]

I've had people after me, too. I understand.

Can you fight them off?

[imperceptus]

not forever

not alone

[ And he's always alone, in the end. ]

[shoplifter]

Por qué? Why are you alone?

[imperceptus]

are you asking for an inventory of my various flaws and weaknesses

why is anybody alone

because that's just how it is.

[shoplifter]

There are reasons for everything. I don't make friends easily because I am strange and easy to anger, and I am unnatural to other children.

[imperceptus]

[ 'other children'. so he's talking to a kid. ]

yeah, most people find me pretty unnatural, too

[shoplifter]

Why is that? Are you strange-looking, or do you speak differently.

[imperceptus]

as strange as they come.

[shoplifter]

I don't look that strange, but I am very strange anyway.

My friend Gideon has a harder time. He has scales on his skin, and reptile eyes. He is very shy about it, I think.

[imperceptus]

sounds like a dragonborn. they get a lot of respect where i'm from--though it's often mixed with fear,
admittedly. people get like that around somebody that seems liable to eat you.

[shoplifter]

Oh.

I don't think Gideon would eat anyone. He doesn't eat very much, and his mouth is normal-sized.