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[tongueamok]

Hello, this is Carlisle. I mean, it's not Carlisle as in I'm actually answering you right now, so if you're trying to reply to me at the second, you should probably save your breath because I'm not really here. This is some kind of a recording of my voice, but this is my communicator. I'm going to assume these devices are as common here as they are in other places — not my world, but others, ones more technologically advanced than where I come from— so if you'd like to leave me a message, then you may do so here, or er... Right. Here is fine. So just leave yo— [beep]

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[circumitus]

[Whatever it is, he doesn't trust her enough to share. Despite all his talk of obligations and debts before, why would he have any reason to? He clearly didn't know her that well before, and he hardly knows her now.

[Rather than being forthright in her answer, she just huffs.] Nothing.

[Just disappointment, son. Or something.]

[tongueamok]

[And that just frustrates him more. He coughs, his throat dry, and made drier by his irritation.]

You know, when someone says it's nothing, they generally mean it's 'something.' What, do you think I'm lying about there being vampires in my world? Why would I lie about that?