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Message: <blockquote data-quote="James Heard" data-source="post: 3010030" data-attributes="member: 7280">Sail and Scepter Inn, Port Verge (early evening) - Carver, Dragen, Glasia, Vhir"Sometimes creatures with shameful habits might wish to hide them from others, metal man," Dragen responds rigidly. "They pretend to be something they are not, so that people might see them as something else than what they are.""I know that some people respond poorly to who I am. But I make no excuses for what I am, nor will I make myself seem to be as something other than that which life has placed me on the path to be. You seem to be without deception, so perhaps you do not understand, but things which bleed are based upon the same cast as the lies of gods. It is good you lack this, but poor that you even possess the capacity to learn it."Dragen's stomach rumbles some more."Forgive me, leaving ship is almost as unpleasant as getting on one. My stomach would wish only that I choose one or the other, land or sea, and favor it perpetually."Dragen pauses, and looks down upon the sculpture as if noticing it finally."It would be better if you had killed the rat. Not only do vermin spread diseases and sneak into the cribs of children at night to steal their breath sometimes; but they also attract larger, more dangerous predators by their presence. That is to say, vermin often believe themselves to be more clever, being small and insignificant, than they really are. You let them eat from your table thinking that they are of no mind, and then a a near-sighted hawk swoops down to carry off a lamb."Suddenly distant, Dragen continues the thought seemingly without care for the rest of the group."Always, always better - to be the hawk rather than the mouse, the wolf better than the lamb -" Dragen shakes his head and looks Carver."That's a very nice sculpture. Perhaps you'd be better off continuing your conversations with the young lady, talking with me sometimes washes blood onto young hands to their detriment."</blockquote>

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