new hobby for him. He’s utterly heartless. I’m not sure what hold you have over him…” The emperor. “But if I were you,” Books continued, “I wouldn’t presume it to be absolute. Be careful. You trust too easily. The first day we met, you told me you were wanted by the enforcers. What if I had turned you in?” “I knew you wouldn’t.” “How could you possibly know that?” he asked. “You weren’t sober enough to find Enforcer Headquarters.” Books snorted. “You see people the way you want to see them, not the way they are. You think Maldynado is a gentleman, for spit’s sake.” “What do you think he is?”
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