[His only reply at first was a short sound that might have been a half-formed bitter laugh. What was friendship and trust really worth, in a place like this? They had all gotten along and coexisted in that mansion, and twice it had failed them. Why should that change now, why should anything change? Friendship and betrayal were just two sides of a single coin, and that was the nature of things.]
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...I'm not worth that and you know it.