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[ Opens on a bunny, here thanks to Scoot, nosing against the camera enthusiastically WHAT IS THIS THING IS IT A NEW VEGETABLE CAN I EAT IT and this may accompany an alarming glimpse of bunny teeth. ]

Oh, stop it.

[ Zane nudges him back from the camera, giving it a clear view of him and his fluffy mane and his stupid ears. ]

He needs a name.

[ And suddenly, the bunny FREEZES. He may have detected a noise. Or responded to a gamma ray. Or become alarmed by a rumble in his own stomach. He suddenly dashes away, and runs smack straight into (and bounces off of) the bed's headboard.

You can just hear the eye roll in Zane's voice. ]

Honestly, he is the stupidest...

[ video goes off. Comes on again, a while later: ]

[ video ; filtered FROM sylvanas, no bunnies in sight ]

I'm Sylvanas's warden now. I'd like you to come to me first if you have any particular problem with her or... anything.

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[Ignore that subtle choking sound.]

. . .

Business partner.

Oh.

Sorry.

He's a friend. I don't have many of them.

That might get better here. People understand things.

There's nothing to get "better."

Having no one to watch your back isn't something that needs to get better?

[ He plays into paranoia, with this one. ]

No. That's asking to be exploited.

Yes, but they're being exploited too. It's give and take.

It never is. People are only in it for themselves, the moment you're no longer useful or have something they want, it's over.

It would be simple if that was true, wouldn't it?

But, your partner. I bet he's not like that, is he.

He's too stupid to be selfish.

When you're clever enough, you know that selfishness isn't the way to be really happy.

No one is happy.

Not always.

Happiness comes in pieces. That's how it works.

It doesn't work for me.

Maybe it will, eventually.

I was an assassin, before. It was as out of reach as the moon.

Good for you.

Bad, actually. It meant I was always doing someone else's work.

Never had that problem.

You really want me to name a rabbit after your only friend?

You can do what you want.

Who are you?

No one of importance.

Must be nice. I wish I was no one of importance.

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