Two Crows Watch from the Gallows Tree (part 12)

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Ky nodded. Not Septimus or Michael, though. The two everyone actually wanted gone. “And sp— each of you may choose when you want to pass on? There’s… nothing that… speeds… it up?”

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"Not as far as I know. As I said, you ought to ask the older ones. They'd be the superstitious lot."
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“Where can I find them?” she asked.

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"They fade in and out of existence, as I said. I'd try to learn about their favorite places if I were you."
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Ky sighed softly. “Okay… any… strategy to any of this? Or just… wander and hope for the best?”

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"The journals are on the opposite side of the library," Septimus mused. "I'd start there."
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Absolutely not.

“…of the oldest nobles?” She would ask explicit permission before she touched another journal again in her life.

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"Yes, of the oldest nobles. Though I can't guarantee they're still around. As I said, I keep to myself. If they're gone, I wouldn't know about it." He looked back at the books. "But you're focusing on how to stop seeing us, isn't that right?"
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“I… guess? So?” She ran her fingers across the spine of a book, brow furrowed. “I… I guess I also want to understand how this all works, too. I think I’m going to remain unsettled even if I can’t see you now that I know you’re all around… and I guess… no offense… but if… it would be possible to… well… I’d just like to know more about… you know…” getting rid of Michael. Permanently. “I just want to understand better.”

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"Mm." He looked back at the shelves. "Funny that you of all people would get this ability. I'd have thought Gaius would get it."
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“Why’s that?”

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"It would be literary for him to suddenly be confronted with Michael once again." An expression of bitterness crossed his face. "Terrible for his health, though I think the gods are damaging that just by stirring."
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“Yes,” she said, expression drawn. “…This isn’t good.”

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"He's only weakening himself with this amputation," he went on. "And if he doesn't sleep, which I know he doesn't, then he won't be at his sharpest when he needs to be."
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Ky eyed him. Oh, so now he gave a fuck about Gaius? “…do you know of anything specific coming he should be ready for?”

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This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy