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[leitstern]

Hmph! Titles here are worthless. Futile, trivial words scrawled on parchment. Merely thinking of them insults me.

[Granted, he needs little provocation to feel insulted.]

Why do you regard their distinction as an accolade worthy of merit?

It has been most instructive as to the nature of your kind that you salivate like mongrels and chase subordination and not independence.

[There is an embittered sigh.]

Do you not entertain any notion of loyalty to your native land? Your eager willingness to chase glory is abominable. Hm. It is useless. You should close your mouths and remember where you come from.

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[leitstern]

[Hendrik has rarely acknowledged his words over the years. Barely noticed his emotions except for anger. The pain of being unnoticed had spread like disease, filling his heart to the point he began questioning himself.

No wonder this choice renders him silent.]

Come on, Hendrik. You know what I mean.

[standvastig]

[It's not a pleasant thing to hear -- and even less to have to talk about in any way. But Hendrik can't help being more attentive now.]

I do not believe that I do.

[leitstern]

[That argument doesn't meet the resistance it would have years ago. Hendrik might now see their differences but he had always been too pig-headed to notice.]

On the contrary, you know every time you glance at me.

What do I have in common with these people?

[He is a monster. In deed and body.]

[standvastig]

[If Jasper was expecting to have his inhumanity acknowledged, he is sadly mistaken.]

You are trapped in a world that is not your own. That is what you have in common with them.

[leitstern]

With their fondness for respite, I would beg to differ. These donkies appear content with servitude over finding their way home.

[A world with Mordegon is at least a world where his role is certain.]

[standvastig]

Do you think I have been finding a way home?

[leitstern]

No.

[Oh, and before you ask, yes! That makes you a donkey.

It doesn't quite spill off his lips.]

[standvastig]

[Hendrik audibly sighs, but says nothing else on the matter.]

I will see you later.

[leitstern]

[A moment of silence. Why does the end of this conversation feel so empty?]

If you insist.

[standvastig]

[Hendrik will also be out of the house for at least a day. SO have fun with that.]