Bets.

Read everything, realized I was harshly in the wrong — whatever, I'll go sit in the corner.

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Author — who's the Dark Lord Lord Black — you don't happen to have any close acquaintances named Nick Perumov, do you? He also has a habit of turning his own names into adjectives.

Now on that point, in more detail, please.

Oh, I get it now. I'm hearing about him for the first time, what acquaintances are you on about!

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You've all gotten kind of weird, somehow — like, Mr. Ple-sen, how long have you been such a fierce enemy of my worthless person? The way I remember it, before I left, only Koteiko (where is he, by the way?) and Imaris the moon wolf (and only because of the boss) had grievances with me. Then Ment — what happened?! You used to be more fun somehow; I'm not saying you've gotten boring, but it used to be more interesting with you. And that's not even the whole list.