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[reznikolai]

@volkvolny NIKOLAI LANTSOV

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[morozova]

I haven't decided yet.

( this much, at least, is true. it's been such a long time since he'd had to start from the ground up, and despite his attempt to project a sense composure and casual menace, he's actually furious. )

[reznikolai]

And I don't suppose you intend to keep me in the loop.

[morozova]

Is this you asking nicely?

[reznikolai]

Well I can't quite bring myself to say "please."

There is no reason for us to be enemies here. There is no country for us to fight over.

[morozova]

How pragmatic of you.
But leaving aside that that must have cost you greatly, I have no intention of causing you harm.

[reznikolai]

Pragmatic. Magnanimous. Eminently wise. Those are just some of the words that have been used to describe me.

Then we have a truce.

[morozova]

Humble and retiring, too, I'm sure.
For the moment.

[reznikolai]

We can review your best qualities next, if you like.

I'm aware that no truce is permanent. That would require one of us conceding, and neither of us has a talent for it.

[morozova]

I'm afraid that will be a short list.

( great men typically don't get to where they are by making friends. )

You're learning.

[reznikolai]

[Nikolai would beg to differ, of course.]

I'm a quick study.

[morozova]

I suspect you'll find plenty to occupy that silver tongue, here.

[reznikolai]

[He really ought to stop replying. But he wants to have the last word. And when has he ever known that it was time to quit?]

Was the double entendre intended?

[morozova]

I think the better question to ask is whether or not you wanted it to.

[reznikolai]

[...He has no good riposte for that.]

Well, I hardly think you want to be bored with the details of my personal affairs.

[morozova]

And here you'd been assuring me the oppsite.
Now I'm just disappointed.

[reznikolai]

Then in disappointment I shall leave you.