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You do? ...Do people give you crap about it when you say that?

I don't say it to those people.

How do you know which people those are?

I listen a lot before I talk. I ask a lot of...neutrally framed questions.

If breaches make them feel violated, I can empathize with that. They probably don't want to hear about how grateful I am, and that's okay.

Is that the thing you talked about before, where you... compartmentalize stuff?

It's....related, I suppose. It's mostly just...not taking things personally.

So that's how you could defend how I handled the murder in the library, even though you're mad at me?

I defended you because you were in the right. I would have done the same if you were a stranger.

[He blows out a long slow breath.]

I'm not still mad.

When did you stop?

[He lifts a hand, wavers it side to side.]

It tapered off. Edwin was alright. The situation mostly resolved.

And then a lot of other very intense personal shit happened and I didn't have emotional space to keep being angry about it, unless I wanted to shift it into long-term grudge storage, and that seemed - disproportionate and unhelpful. So it got jettisoned somewhere in there.

Edwin and I talked about what happened. We came to an explicit understanding so it won't happen again. We're friends. If that... makes it feel.... more fully resolved.

I'm glad to hear it.

Sorry if my whole… murder investigation thing caused an issue between you and Eiffel.

[Jedao shakes his head.]

Don't be. We're fine, but even if we weren't...it was my choice to confront him.

Did… did you confront him directly?

...do you think what I said publicly was indirect?

Oh! Oh, right. Well, I’m sure he got the message, even if he didn’t respond.

We did also speak privately, but that's - you know. Private.

Yeah. Of course. I mean. Obviously.

I suspect he stopped responding because he realized he was out of line.

Tell me about your breach, Malcolm.

If that's true, he'll probably never say so to me.

My breach? I was an adder that traveled with wolves and fought pirates. Will was a wolf and we were good friends. Outsiders that found common ground together. So... that part was a little on the nose, but in a good way.

Sometimes that's nice. When they make sense to you.

I was a bird. With the pirates, in fact. It wasn't a happy life, but I loved flying.

Couldn’t you have left them?

I thought it was where I belonged. It was...complicated.

No, I understand that. Belonging… has a powerful allure.

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