[ He keeps having to remind himself to subtly fidget and breathe, all these pesky human things he can barely remember. Jean-Claude is not going to end up keeping this act for very long. When he doesn't catch himself, he's as still and unmoving as a corpse, like a frozen doll. ]
Why would that be, Monsieur? [ It does invite the question, and he will not pass up free information, no matter how trivial. He has a long way to go to rebuild himself. It is deeply frustrating, seeing as he'd done all this work over years and years, decades and centuries, but at least here he has less far to climb.
And he will not be at the bottom of the food chain, ever again. ]
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Why would that be, Monsieur? [ It does invite the question, and he will not pass up free information, no matter how trivial. He has a long way to go to rebuild himself. It is deeply frustrating, seeing as he'd done all this work over years and years, decades and centuries, but at least here he has less far to climb.
And he will not be at the bottom of the food chain, ever again. ]