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"So you needto bite its master’s hand when the master tries to kill it?" I ask

"Terrible"Ah" We set off again

"The point is: I need your help"

He spits on the round and motions me to follow hi "Why should I care about you?"

"Because you trained me"

"I also trained Aja au Grimmus"

"For some reason, I think you like me more than her"

"And why’s that?"

"I have a sense of hu"

"You meet a hs to hi her soht But she’s flesh and blood She has friends She has family And she thinks you a threat to them"

"Yet she’s the one who killed my friend"

"Yes I heard You had the child Clever tactic" He squints back at the razor curled around my arm "Does everyone wear their razor like a fool now?"

"It’s the fashion"

"It’s meant to be looped on the hip You’ll cut your arant Changing things for no reason I wonder, arrogant boy, did you think that if you rode in here with your stolen ship that I, a man of a century, would follow you to battle? That I would put in danger all my servants, all my family, all I love, for you? Someone who rejected nore his bitterness "You left the Society for a reason, Lorn Can you remember why?"

"To avoid loud fools"

"I think you left because you thought the Society sick Because it was not worth sacrificing for anyht"