[More floor-patting. He really doesn't like having these traitorous thoughts. Not at ALL.]
[What if Master can hear those thoughts?]
[She's not HERE but that never really seemed to matter when it came to knowing when one of her servants had been misbehaving.]
... Don't say 'was' like she's gone.
She'll come here.
You'll see.
[But for the first time, he doesn't bother trying to sound smug about that. Because he wants it just as little as any of them do, and he's too tired and mixed-up to make the effort to hide it anymore.]
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[What if Master can hear those thoughts?]
[She's not HERE but that never really seemed to matter when it came to knowing when one of her servants had been misbehaving.]
... Don't say 'was' like she's gone.
She'll come here.
You'll see.
[But for the first time, he doesn't bother trying to sound smug about that. Because he wants it just as little as any of them do, and he's too tired and mixed-up to make the effort to hide it anymore.]