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[timed after this. Because this is just.... not alright and -- ]

I can't be the only person who comes from a place, where for the most part... elves, fae, bogarts, and all such manner of creatures are something that you hit over the head with a poker before you befriend? Honestly.

[No, she's not afraid to admit, doesn't care who reads it. They're empathy lacking monsters as far as that goes for home.]

Not that that applies to all worlds, obviously, I'm not an idiot -- and was raised with better manners mind you. But I doubt that I'm alone in this.

[Says the governess related to Death of all things -- but that's different. Death is supposed to be a killer, and she's also fairly sure he's capable of more empathy than most people would ever imagine. He spared her father for her after all.

But she's worried, all the same. Just because their worlds are round it doesn't mean it can be that different. It was an oddly isolating feeling when the things you knew to be true were turned upside down. Again.]

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[ He's not sure what he's expecting when the woman disappears again -- perhaps she's just going to repeat her previous trick, but then suddenly she's in front of him again, and not in just the visible-on-the-screen sense but actually, physically, present. He shrinks back into his chair, his eyes wide but his mouth firm. Firm, at least, until he tries to speak. ]

H-how -- [ Dammit, Miles, you're stuttering. He takes a breath to recollect himself. ] -- How did you do that?

I told you, I have abilities, and they do exist in some of our words. That's all you need to know.

[she takes up that same lecturing tone, the same way she did with children.] So now you should think before you speak.

[ His eyes narrow at the obvious condescension - he won't stand to be spoken to like that - he is a grown man. ]

Just because you possess strange abilities doesn't give you the right to trespass into other people's personal space!

[It doesn't phase her much, granted she is younger than him, in physical years at least. But she talks like she's fifty.]

You're really going to start with that now...? You seem like a learned fellow, as far as that goes, I suppose. That doesn't seem very... sensible.

It's not sensible to respect other people's right to privacy?

[ A beat. ]

I suggest you leave.

Not when they openly doubt and discredit you. They've already disrespected you.

[Her arms cross, and there is a stubborn look on her face.]

[ His brow furrows, and he otherwise does his best to match that look. ]

For the record, the proper course of action would have been to make a time and date. Not to... float in here unannounced!

[She almost -- almost wanted to laugh. Death always arrived announced, he always arrived without a time and date set. It was Death, and he did as he liked.

But she was Susan, and she knew better than to do things like that but it irritated her when people got so cocky. It was like Imp all over again tell her to go away.]

I didn't float, I walked. Next time you shouldn't accuse people of doing things falsely or it being a trick. Did it occur to you maybe that's offensive? [Not that she was offended either way.] Besides you'll believe me now.

And if you had shown me tomorrow, in a location we had agreed on, I would have also believed you then. Is it too much to ask for people to provide evidence for all their claims?

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