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"Okay how about your favorite food then?"
Every thirty seconds.
A question or a comment or some pitiful attempt to start a conversation. She'd wait patiently for a response that would never come but she wasn't deterred.
After the question came her own answer to show that she was open and willing.
"Everyone has a favorite food," she enticed. "Mine is noodles. Any type, any flavor."
Then came a grace period so that he could respond if he chose to do so.
Sesshomaru never did.
That meant a new question in…
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