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Formidable

There's another Melita, she thinks, looking at the same form but filling it in differently. She wishes she were that Melita.

Medium

She's done this many times before. She'll say as little as possible. Treat it like a formality to get through the moment.

Medium

She's done this many times before. She'll say as little as possible. Treat it like a formality to get through the moment.

Medium

She's done this many times before. She'll say as little as possible. Treat it like a formality to get through the moment.

Medium

For a moment he seems to consider his reflection in the bottom of the tiny glass.

Formidable

The voice speaking these words, it's not entirely natural.

Medium

You mark a distinct change in the old spy's demeanour. Gone are the cryptic circumlocutions and knowing flourishes. For once, you're on the same page.

Medium

The world is huge, and strange, and it is flirting with him. He is pondering the offer.

Formidable

Can you say the same?

Legendary

He doesn't know, but he has suspicions he's not prepared to share yet.

Challenging

He remembers every betrayal, every expression of horror when his target hears the mental click of the cage-door locking behind them.

Trivial

Wow! This truth sauce is strong. Hahaha! But ooohh, should you really be saying all this?

Challenging

A note of genuine disappointment. He wishes he could think better of his former employer.

Easy

A damaged heart, longing to redeem itself.

Medium

And no one else to attest to what he saw. Over years the memory has smudged into dream.

Easy

A tinge of respect, beneath the bruised ego.

Medium

He relishes the thought. He thinks it's funny.

Trivial

A mix of emotions in his voice.

Challenging

Marginally impressed.

Challenging

A name he'll never answer to again.

Easy

He needs time. And space.

Medium

Easy

It's less an opinion, more a criminal sentence.

Easy

Tarred, somewhat inevitably you feel, with the replayer brush.

Formidable

A wistful lover, content to gaze upon beauty without ever touching it.

Medium

Specialists, collectors of the rare and the defunct. People like him, in other words.

Trivial

Talking to the Einzeltone, not you.

Easy

'No more. No more of this.'

Medium

Agreement is not, in itself, agreeable to him.

Easy

And now, he is you. Almost.

Medium

A box of little nemeses.

Challenging

Medium

You barely recognise her voice, emerging like a stranger's from a haze of red mist.

Challenging

All but calling you a traitor.

Medium

She titters nervously, wanting it to be a joke.

Challenging

This woman is serially drawn to victims of world history. Septimus, KALEIDOSCOPE, you...

Easy

The 'weird' is for your benefit. Her sexual intrigue just went up a notch.

Easy

He bought her three more to bribe her into not telling anyone.

Medium

Only a half-lie. And look, she's so happy.

Formidable

Nor for you, either. You've made her just like you.

Medium

Some solid reassurance there for your most fragile asset. Well done.

Medium

She's dressed just like you when you first came to Portofiro.

Challenging

It's happy to see you again.

Easy

A drug order -- no question. Dr. Hugo was right, this is the man you need to fix Ramses.

Challenging

He'd happily sell drugs to you. He's just caught wind of an opportunity to get something out of you.

Medium

This is the closest he's ever got to having respect for his former colleague.

Medium

Put it this way -- will it help? No. Will it make his condition any worse? Also probably not.

Medium

PSEUDOPOD harboured a secret love for Luzian pop music? Seems unlikely.

Medium

He was a rule-follower, alright. It's written all over his face.

Medium

Surveillance master, wiretapper extraordinaire, a man capable of planting an invisible bug on a moving tuk-tuk.