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Despite appearances, we are not human.

And what of the people who behave inhumanely?

Your foibles and transgressions are still of a human nature, DuMorne. You cannot escape what you are, no matter how many times you call yourself 'monster.'

Hard to escape what you are when even the subject himself can't define it.

Human fantasies, human weaknesses, human tragedy. Too constrained by your words and your definitions.

Humans are one of the few entities that exist in this world that are constrained almost solely by themselves. Say what you want about my flaws, they don't hold me back from taking what I want.

Edited 2008-06-19 12:38 (UTC)

No. They only hold you back from achieving it.

What did I want that I could not grasp, wise queen?

Knowing will not help you with the getting, and you have not inclined me to aid you yet.

More talk. The Sidhe use so many words to say so little.

Edited 2008-06-19 12:53 (UTC)

Does that frustrate you, Warden DuMorne?

Always.

Such a pity.

Yes, being a man of action is woeful isn't it?

And yet being so impatient and frustrated as to lack control, yes.

You had so much potential and you squandered it on a life of escape from the one thing you never could be rid of.

It was my life to squander as I wished.

So it is, and so it was, and so you did.

And some of us are human who do not appear so. The world does so enjoy its ironies.

The world enjoys its varieties and contrasts. But the Sidhe know not to place all faith in appearances.

The Sidhe?

My people are called the Sidhe.

No. We have better ways to pay our debts.

Humanity has always been our destroyer. Even we know the old stories well enough to know that.

Which is why we tempt them and offer chosen deals, is it not?

Some of us more than others, more than we should.

Not everyone knows how far we can reach. Aurora made a bright example of that.

Aurora had lost what little reason she possessed. Your reach should never exceed your grasp.

*inclines her head* But what we grasp should be firmly done - and at our terms.

Always at our terms.

Another Mab? How entertaining.

I'm glad I amuse you.

Indeed.

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