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The trouble with pretending to have no emotions beyond a vague benevolence is that after a while you start to believe your lies. But that I do not display my emotions does not mean I do not have them. Oh, no,” he added a little more softly, “it does not indeed. Benevolent I think I can generally claim to be, but calm, disinterested, and serene I am not.”
wow this crashout was so valid!
— Jul 29, 2026 11:52PM
wow this crashout was so valid!
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“I have been showing you another aspect of myself this journey. I did not realize until just now that you have been showing me another aspect of yourself as well.”
Cliopher didn’t know what to say.
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Cliopher didn’t know what to say.
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“Thought of his lord, never failing to do his duty.
Thought of his lord, with no one to joke with him.
Thought of losing that—he could not call it friendship, could he? That implied a kind of equality, and there was no equality possible between the Sun-on-Earth and anyone else.
But call it a relationship, that was permissible.
He suppressed the wish that he dared call his Radiancy his friend.”
— Jul 26, 2026 11:02PM
Thought of his lord, with no one to joke with him.
Thought of losing that—he could not call it friendship, could he? That implied a kind of equality, and there was no equality possible between the Sun-on-Earth and anyone else.
But call it a relationship, that was permissible.
He suppressed the wish that he dared call his Radiancy his friend.”