[Even as she's saying it, she knows it sometimes is not: she is different from other people, and there is little to her. Nugs are different, and they require no thought at all.
I have not, either. [What a surprise. Mhavos is the only one she can say these things to, she suspects, and get an answer she will like.] But it is...not bad.
No. I... enjoy the knowledge that I can continue to benefit from the company of others. In Orlais, my contract was frequently traded or sold; I stopped trying to make acquaintances, much less friends.
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[Even as she's saying it, she knows it sometimes is not: she is different from other people, and there is little to her. Nugs are different, and they require no thought at all.
But that is not the same as Mhavos.]
Do you feel that way about humans?
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I do not feel that way about you, either.
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[Only what you did. There's a note of sympathy in there somewhere.]
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[A moment of vulnerability, quickly retracted.]
My contract had value. It became fashionable to brandy it about with favors and trades. That is all.
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