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Max's confusion only deepened along with his frown. Eris was being so hot and cold here; if it was pure pragmatism motivating him, he could throw Ryner's 'get along' sentiment out the window. But Eris also apparently wasn't 'nice'. Whatever his game was here, the mage didn't get it. A stream of consciousness approach was his best bet; the vampire desperately grasped for material leverage to hold over him, realized pretentious magic tutors were a poor way to buy loyalty in the information age, dropped that idea out of futility, and stooped to weird emotional blackmail. Which... the vampire should know better than to try. So... the only alternative was this was a giant cope after Eris tried to be nice and failed.

But Eris apparently wasn't 'nice'.

And honestly? Max believed him, but that still left the question of what the fuck was happening here open.

[color=8585AD]"I can't know what you want me to tell you without you asking, you know,"[/color] Max grumbled, ignoring his earlier train of thought, [color=8585ad]"This might be news to you, but there is a pretty significant gray area between annoying the piss out of someone and not interacting with them at all."[/color] In all fairness, that gray area probably wasn't very big with Eris involved, and it was even smaller with Max in the picture, but it [i]did[/i] exist.

[color=8585AD]"Unless you want [i]me[/i] bothering [i]you[/i] with inane bullshit everytime I figure out a new way to levitate a spoon, you're just gonna have to double-check with me before you start whoring me out for favors."[/color] Honestly, this guy had the audacity to act like ordering someone else to go work was the more difficult side of the exchange. Not to mention, Max had no idea what magical parlor tricks vampires found useful. Skewering rivals was a no-brainer - Eris should've been well aware he'd figure out that one pretty quick - but that type of thing didn't exactly happen every day, and after that, what was he supposed to do? Fix jewelry? Adjust chandeliers?

[color=8585ad]"A terrible inconvenience for you, I know,"[/color] He tacked on drolly with a roll of his eyes.

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