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PROLOGUE

"...that's it? You have a thousand year reputation, and all it takes for to get you to lie is to ask?"

"I assure you that I wasn't so easily bought. You don't scare me and you'd have nothing to offer me if I wasn't interested for my own reasons."

"Be that as it may, this... simplifies things."

There's a long pause of silence, broken only by the sound of the sipping of tea.
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