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Tola fell silent, and her inscrutable gaze crawled over Rixen like a thousand tiny spiderlegs. She appeared to be concentrating very hard (or perhaps she'd simply fallen asleep and forgotten to close her eye..?) for her breathing came in shallow and ragged spurts as if oxygenating her blood was something she only did when the feeling struck her. "Everyone is important." Tola hissed suddenly, her voice like a snake on sandpaper as it slithered from her lips. Her entire posture had subtly changed and for a moment she seemed entirely coherent and perhaps intelligent. That might have been a stretch, but whatever had happened it was a marked departure from her previous countenance. And then just as quickly as it had come this moment of rationality slipped away. Or seemed to anyways. Tola began to suck on her teeth and for a moment it looked as though she was going to turn away from Rixen entirely, but midway through lifting her decrepit limbs, she seemed to think better of it. "Time is a funny thing, you know." She drawled. "It isn't relative at all, but me - ning - less." She spat out the word in its syllables as if it offended her. She shook her head, dislodging a few spiders whose small glowing bodies raced back into the safety of her matted mane. "Do you know who the Metus is?" She asked in that bizarrely coherent tone again. "Do you know what lays at the heart of the labyrinth?" tola Madness is like gravity, all it needs is a little push

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