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Hi! This is Polymnia Terpsichore Aino Perdita Zyanya! Or Polly. People seem to like that better... Leave your voice at the beep, and I'll reply!

[Picks up her Guide... then blinks, seeing who it is. Why would he...]

[Slowly she presses the button.]

Hello...?

There a reason we're stampedin' on my side'a the line again?

[Do what?]

What do you mean?

Don't play dumb. You were in my head again.

I almost left, when I realized...

But you were hurt.

And small.

[ spat, quick and furious; ]

Ain't that all the more reason t'leave?!

You didn't leave when you found me that way...

[ all the difference is; ]

You can't be saved.

But you still tried.

That's my job. I don't need no returned favors.

I couldn't just not help...

Why?

Because...

You were hurt.

And small, and...

I know what it's like, I guess...

That's shit I gotta live with, not you.

So, you didn't have to, for a little while.

No thanks to you. S'cuz I don't fuckin' sleep.

Who was it that did those things to you?

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