[center][h2][color=#b3ccff]Esben Matthiassen[/color][/h2][/center]
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[color=#b3ccff]"So long as you don't get into specific members I'm sure you're correct,"[/color] Esben mused off to the side, at Rudolf's comment of everybody else supposedly loving their families. [color=#b3ccff]"Took you long enough to get around to this, though. I told you right after leaving Kugane that you needed to get on top of it, didn't I?"[/color]

It appeared that even he couldn't entirely resist getting an 'I-told-you-so' in. Multiple discussions having to do with this and related topics, and he'd never found the younger man lacking in awareness of the problem and his own issues in dealing with it—just in the follow-through.

[color=#b3ccff]"You'll have to lay off the self-castigation, though. After a while it starts to lose its effect when you do it too much, especially thrice in as many sentences."[/color]