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"Hungry?" Marie-Laure asked after five minutes of silence

"Me?" Nora asked

Marie-Laure nodded

"I wouldn’t turn breakfast down if you offered"

"I’uard pushed her back down to the floor Marie-Laure held out a plate, which Fat Man took and dropped on the floor in front of Nora

"No butter?"

Andrei, the Fat Man, only glared at her

"You don’ton the floor, do you?" Marie-Laure asked as she finally turned to look at her

"I’ve been subbing half my life You think this is the first time I’ve had to eat off the floor?" She tore a bit off a piece of dry toast and popped it in her tell ? What do you want to know?"

"Why do you do it? Why do you like it?"

"The answers er than breakfast"

"It’sSo up control So sexual encounters So my body and my will to Søren"

"You don’t seehed softly

"Soo made a very poor decision to cross ht him toMarie-Laure alluded to was the sort of "discussion" that ended with sos out?" Nora asked, trying to focus her energy on eating as quickly as possible in case Marie-Laure changed her mind and took the food away She’d need to eat to keep up her strength

"He and Andrei worked things out in such a way that this h He was soswell, that Andrei is notorious for"

"Mad fly fishing skills?"

Marie-Laure grinned "You see, that’s my point exactly This ed and cried and wept for mercy You who are in an equally tenuous situation sit on my floor, insult me and crack jokes"