"It meant there was a chance Diem Chau, too, was still alive. Hope was a thing of teeth, painfully squeezing Thuan's ribs and his heart."
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"You're my husband," Asmodeus said. "You know exactly what I do: what you're too squeamish for."
"I call that having moral standards!"
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Asmodeus said softly, to Thuan, "He will stab you if you don't comply. He's scared, and right now he wants everything under control. Don't let your death be the one thing of yours he feels he can control."
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"You look like you're brooding pointlessly," Asmodeus said, coming up behind him.
"It's not pointless," Thuan snapped.
A raised eyebrow. "You've been doing a lot of it and I can't think much of it is useful for your mental state. Come over here. There is noodle soup. Hu Tieu."
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"it was the way she moved, every gesture charged with obvious sexual appeal.
It had no effect on Asmodeus, who wasn't attracted to women and could be surpringly focused especially when dead bodies were involved, but it was definitely distracting for Thuan."
Poor Thuan
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"You don't seem very efficient," Auntie Nga said.
"Try interrogating a monk," Thuan said, and stopped himself. Auntie Nga looked quite capable of marching up to the monastery and demanding answers, and Thuan didn't want to check how reverent the monks would be to her.
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Me staring at three different synopses I wrote the #murderbirdsTea novella. It's great, none of them make sense, and at least one of them is completely obsolete on account of the plot having changed since then.
I'm almost there though, just need to work out why Asmodeus heads out at a crucial point
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