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what I would say if this was about me. But it's just academic.

Literally no one who ever says that has meant it. What kind of contract, and what with? I'm surprised your boyfriend didn't stop you.

[craaaap crap crap crap. he didn't think this all the way through.]

Night, please, please don't tell Mikleo I'm asking. He'll worry over nothing and he's got enough on his plate to deal with.

Nightingale. Wait a minute, though. Did you not tell him before making whatever contract this is? Aren't you two dating or something?

It's not that. Mikleo knows, but if he heard about me even just asking about breaking it, he'd worry about me.

It's not a big deal. Really. Please, Nightingale, please don't tell anyone I asked.

You still haven't given me the information I need to even guess at how to break this contract.

You haven't agreed not to tell him yet.

I think you'll find those two things related. I'm still a low-level mage. Even if I know how, I may just not have the power myself to do it. He's got the biggest MP pool I know of here to draw from. And the fact that you are really, really desperate to hide this from your husband sounds familiar enough that I'm not willing to agree until I know more.

[okay, well, he KNOWS mikleo can't really help with this, so maybe if he tells her more she'll agree to keep it secret?]

...there's a reason I was just curious.

I want to see if it's possible to release a seraphim from their sublord pact. Unfortunately, the pacts are made through Lailah, my Prime Lord, but she's not here. As far as I know she's the only one who can break that contract, but I know almost next to nothing about how the Shepard contract works. She's supposed to guide me through that.

[There's a very long pause before her reply comes in, and then it's just:]

are you asking me to help you get a divorce

A divorce? No. A sublord pact isn't like marriage. Lailah and I have multiple sublords, after all.

I have a teammate who once explained polygamy to me in between attempts to concuss me. I'm not sure how polygamous marriage works, but this sounds close. Are you having relationship trouble or something?

It's really not like that at all. [For one thing it's about a katrillion times more complicated] If you don't know of anything that'll work, then that's fine. [it's really not] I'm just looking around at different options.

I didn't say I don't know of anything that would work. If nothing else, if there's a connection of mana between you, I can try to draw it off and attach it to someone else? I've never tried with living things, though, mostly it's just to repair mana pathways in structures. But I want to know why I would be doing this.

[whoa whoa ok what connect it to someone else????? would that even WORK? he'd have to find someone else really pure to make sure it's safe and he...can't do that....without a seraph.............. heck]

In the case that'd be necessary...I guess it would have to happen if I ever started to generate malevolence. Back home if that happened Lailah could just sever the contracts, but I've been here so long...I want to make sure there's something that can save them in case I'm not fit to be their vessel anymore.