[That gets a pause, long enough to allow her to believe she's got him there, before he grins again.]
Really now.
[He leans back a bit, as one of his hands leaves the desk to instead grab a random book off a shelf nearby.]
Well, you do know how the rumor about me goes, don't you? I am the one who controls this space, and everything in it. That includes the books that dictate a person's past, and their fated future. A keeper of records... and one could say that memories are a type of record.
[He holds the book up for her to see, but out of reach. It's not her book specifically, but it's a necessary prop for the bluff he's about to make with how he's testing her here...]
And when there are no records of you left, then you may as well have not existed. And people tend to not remember things that have stopped existing, you see. In other words... what's to stop me from killing you, and making sure that no one even remembers that you were here?
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Really now.
[He leans back a bit, as one of his hands leaves the desk to instead grab a random book off a shelf nearby.]
Well, you do know how the rumor about me goes, don't you? I am the one who controls this space, and everything in it. That includes the books that dictate a person's past, and their fated future. A keeper of records... and one could say that memories are a type of record.
[He holds the book up for her to see, but out of reach. It's not her book specifically, but it's a necessary prop for the bluff he's about to make with how he's testing her here...]
And when there are no records of you left, then you may as well have not existed. And people tend to not remember things that have stopped existing, you see. In other words... what's to stop me from killing you, and making sure that no one even remembers that you were here?