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JADE: youre not even going to read it first???

JADE: even if you dont take this contract seriously its binding al

al: i'm aware.

al: roxy has become a rather creative rogue with your jostling.

al: i'm sure that device on your wrist offers you all manner of contingencies.

al: admirable prepwork, but all unnecessary, i assure you. no matter your conditions, i will dutifully acquiesce.

JADE: youve changed your tune

JADE: werent we just furniture to be arranged in your weirdly shaped house

al: i was perhaps overzealous in my appeals, but i assure you it was all in pursuit of everyone's best interest.

al: nevertheless, i acknowledge your frustration. we shared it.

al: you may not believe me, but you and i were enmeshed for so long i was truly compromised by the end.

JADE: compromised?

al: i've never experienced a human body before.

al: your hormones, impulses, and ego are all overwhelmingly disparate to a cherub, let alone a ghost.

al: the inebriative novelty of "feeling" at all clouded my senses, leaving me vulnerable to influence.

al: it was far too potent a dose of you.

JADE: al

JADE: were you on a bender?

al: that is a fair comparison.

al: the rehabilitation took weeks, and to my horror my mind had been altered so drastically i even experienced embarrassment at one point.

JADE: that is fucking hilarious

JADE: all this self important posturing

JADE: no wonder you were skulking around all these months

JADE: you were scared!

al: it's true. i have been committed to my sobriety.

al: but untangling my thoughts has also given me a certain clarity regarding truths always known to me. i am limited.

JADE: uh ok?

al: for example your heavy hand has been far more beneficial to galvanizing your peers against the prince than the subtlety of my authority.

al: being a muse, i can only passively expand. but i cannot transform.

al: to use brute force is not only against my nature, but fundamentally impossible.

al: however, you can.

al: and i recognize that if we are to work together again, it will have to be as equals.

JADE: you know for someone going on and on about how subtle you are its laughable how thick youre laying this all on

JADE: come on!!!!!!

JADE: i didnt come here to listen to you debase yourself

JADE: i came for a fucking fight

al: i'm not debasing myself.

al: these are the facts.

al: you are the only class more active than a prince, second only to a lord.

al: do you understand now?

al: i can't do this alone.