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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dave_o" data-source="post: 3521964" data-attributes="member: 2933">As Dormiano speaks, Nix lets his face slack to its normal, unremarkable and decidedly disturbing expression. All Changelings have white eyes, but never so empty. Hands simply piled into his lap with a complete lack of ticks, of tells, of personality, Nix almost watches the words come out of the Pugio's mouth rather than anything as involved as listening to them.Midway through his prospective employer's introduction, a near simulacrum of Dormiano's features unobtrusively forms on Nix's face. The changeling pulls faces -- frowning, working eyebrows up, down, together, clenching the jaw, as if he were trying on a new suit. Nix tries different shades of hair, white fading into blond, into black. Content, the Changeling simply looks on for the rest of the Pugio's explanation, a dark mirror.As the identification papers slide in front of Nix, a relieved smile crosses his face. An anchor, sweet printed pattern of self... The Changeling drifts his fingers to the packet almost reverently, giving a shiver as skin meets pulp. He gives it a quick read, slipping the papers into his jacket, over his heart.At Avram's query, Nix turns to the performer, his face and features drooping into a terrible, funhouse deformity of Dormiano's own before snapping back into those of a young, fresh-faced man with a shoulder-length tumble of brown ringlets. He fetches a pair of looking-glasses from his jacket, setting them with care on the bridge of his nose.The new youth's voice is soft, breathless, as if his mind is always elsewhere, figuring. "A bonafide, as you've put it," the youth speaks with the ubiquitous arrogance of the educated, "is truly as simple as providing what is desired, which is in this case fine liquor and..." Nix produces two coins, slips them into a pocket, rubbing them together, and returns his hand with three. "A passion and ability for this."</blockquote>

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