[center][h2][color=#b3ccff]Esben Matthiassen[/color][/h2][/center]
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[color=#b3ccff]"Careful, careful, you'll wake her and the rest up,"[/color] Esben cautioned, expertly suppressing his urge to laugh at her expense. [color=#b3ccff]"That would make it even harder for you to indulge your voyeuristic tendencies. Let's go and check on her, shall we?"[/color]

Without waiting for a response, he strode on past the rapidly-reddening mage. Two doors down, three short knocks, crack it open a hair and talk just loudly enough to be heard, just quietly enough not to wake anybody up who [i]was[/i] still sleeping—

[color=#b3ccff]"Are you awake yet, Éliane?"[/color]