Wahrheit und andere Irrtümer

[Enkidu]

The cat shot off an inscrutable squint, Tail curling and arcing back and forth, a bleached duster, poisefully caressing the air beneath its ankles.

"A lengthy absence when the work itself is lengthy, is an adequate absence". Asmodeus shrugged imperceptibly, gaze locked, pupils pooling in the dark. "You would not have wanted me a moment sooner, nor would I have graced you with incompletion". The chimera twitched, all but a statue for the motion of it's empennage.

Finally, the being moved, sliding a left paw out his robe like a magus with a hare, flashing an unexceptional, tarnished, Libertonian tablet before drawing the doodad shapelessly back into the folds of his clothes, boring on dark with a bright, angular stare that spoke of nothing.

The pause passed.

"Your eyes do not fail you; nor I, the better appendage". The creature motionlessly lisped with a tone of factual reproach. "Nor would you expect me to fail you, unless, logically, your expectations have lowered". Asmodeus moved not, mouth functionally shut, but a certain cattish, self-satisfaction radiated regardless. Perhaps it was the ears.

"All you wish… all you desire to know, is on datapad. But as for the man, well…"

The tomcat blinked, pointedly.

"…It is your head, master - and thus irreplaceable. You know of who I speak - erratic, impulsive, possessive of an alternate power... Perhaps your sanity will also be claimed although that is more simplistically rectified, than an organ."

Two paws moved in tandem, And a second sip resounded.

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