"I think at the moment I'm quite safe from her temptations. It helps a lot that we're not under threat right now. this is merely curiosity and ... well," she held it up and squinted at the object in her hand. "This will almost certainly curse me in some fashion. I'm already prepared for that. I'll just burn extra incense and make an appointment for some blood treatments for next week, just in case. Honestly, she's being too damned obvious with these, but it might teach me something. Who knows?"

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"I just said all of that didn't I?" She really didn't usually get quite that cynical.