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From: Winthrop
Date: 05 Dec 1999
Time: 23:18:14
As always, I am almost frightened by the sight of another so close and getting closer.
"Easy, spirit, I mean no disrespect. I am no more a part of this than a homeless man is ourside a domestic dispute. I mearly saw the exchange between you and that... entity. It is not the first of its kind that I have witnessed, though I must say that this is the first time someone ever confronted me about it."
I thought it best to step slowly backward then, and I did, raising my hands, palms out and facing this angry one, gesturing both my unwillingness to upset him further, and my lack of interest in turning converstaion into conflict.
"I do understand the hostility, really. You are worried, I can tell, about whomever was in that room with you. As well you might be. There is much worse than your scythe-wielding adversary in the city tonight, though I do not think that it is anywhere near here. Myself, I was leaving to return to my home. I meant no disrespect. You may be assured of my neutral intent. Curiosity, nothing more."
I did hope this pacified the angry spirit. I was not about to come to blows over what I had seen through a window.