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<blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3463240" data-attributes="member: 29014">*Elizabeth shrugs.*&quot;I am sorry you feel that way.&nbsp; If so, then please stay here while we go check.&nbsp; I'll check it alone if you like.&nbsp; I would do anything if I was sure it would save Lucy, but I'm not willing to break my beloved's heart to bring one more person there when I'm not even sure this is the right place to look.&nbsp; As it is, I am violating his confidence because I am letting you take off your blindfolds once you get there...I don't think you realise just how hard it is to be a successful independent researcher of constructs in a world with a powerful and morally-ambiguous entity that wants to keep a monopoly on that--No offense to individual members of your house who are kind souls,&quot; she adds to Aethelus, &quot;We have, for instance, been assaulted twice by House Cannith hired goons--they weren't trying to kill us either time, but they wanted to rough us up a bit while stealing or destroying as much research as possible.&nbsp; I don't want to be responsible for a third.&nbsp; How about this?&nbsp; A total nondisclosure agreement, including Aethelus agreeing to nondisclosure from House Cannith, which is the main issue here.&nbsp; I'll get it signed from you and dropped off somewhere safe.&nbsp; Does that sound better?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rystil Arden, post: 3463240, member: 29014"] *Elizabeth shrugs.* [color=gold]"I am sorry you feel that way. If so, then please stay here while we go check. I'll check it alone if you like. I would do anything if I was sure it would save Lucy, but I'm not willing to break my beloved's heart to bring one more person there when I'm not even sure this is the right place to look. As it is, I am violating his confidence because I am letting you take off your blindfolds once you get there...I don't think you realise just how hard it is to be a successful independent researcher of constructs in a world with a powerful and morally-ambiguous entity that wants to keep a monopoly on that--No offense to individual members of your house who are kind souls,"[/color] she adds to Aethelus, [color=gold]"We have, for instance, been assaulted twice by House Cannith hired goons--they weren't trying to kill us either time, but they wanted to rough us up a bit while stealing or destroying as much research as possible. I don't want to be responsible for a third. How about this? A total nondisclosure agreement, including Aethelus agreeing to nondisclosure from House Cannith, which is the main issue here. I'll get it signed from you and dropped off somewhere safe. Does that sound better?"[/color] [/QUOTE]

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