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You know how you have those nights where you can't sleep? You toss and you turn, you doze off and then the slightest thing jerks you awake again, and then in the morning you feel cloudy-headed and grumpy at everything?

Ajedrez had one of those nights. And thus she is grumpy at everything.

Not her breakfast, though. The breakfast is a good breakfast. Just, the rest of the world which isn't nice, hot food.

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Ajedrez says nothing. She doesn't smile, she doesn't glance at Mal knowingly.

She just eats.

Very, very thoughtfully.

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If eating can be threatening, this kind of eating is.

Mal reflects on the fact that too many people know how to kill her.

Damn.

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"I don't suppose you'd tell me what'd happen if you didn't have your heart?" She asks after a moment, taking a drink from her atole.

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"Well."

Mal thinks about this for a while.

"It'd probably hurt like all hell."

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"Gotcha."

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"I wouldn't recommend it."

And...she very much doesn't want it to happen.

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"Well, you wouldn't."

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"That's very true. Tell me, what would happen if I drank your blood?"

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"How much of it are we talking?"

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"Probably all of it."

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"Then presumably I'd die."

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"Ah."

Mal smiles.

"Neat."

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"I'd hate to think that you've only just worked this out."

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"Well, some people are special."

Beat.

"Like me."

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"You know, there's another meaning to the word 'special'."

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"...there is?"

THIS IS NEW.

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"I'm shocked and amazed that Sands hasn't told you yet."

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"Then why don't you tell me, dear?"

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"Because I'm not your boyfriend, honey."

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"Oh, come now, sweetheart. That's a minor detail."

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"Hardly."

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"Well."

Mal sticks her tongue out in an amazing display of maturity.

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Ajedrez rests her chin on her hand and smiles at her.

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Ajedrez seems to have won this round.

How sad.

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Amazingly enough, she really doesn't seem to think so.