Damn it. Alistair has got to stop joking about this sort of thing already.
He sighs. "To translate that from my native 'poor joke' dialect into something intelligible," he says, "I don't mind staying. I want you to not be miserable. And you insist my staying doesn't make you miserable, so."
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He sighs. "To translate that from my native 'poor joke' dialect into something intelligible," he says, "I don't mind staying. I want you to not be miserable. And you insist my staying doesn't make you miserable, so."
Alistair lifts his eyebrows.
"Here I am."