[If Mal had the traditional human heart, it would have softened at Cassandra's obvious gesture of embarrassment. As it is, her heart is cold and icy and still, and she just laughs, a bright and brittle noise in the stillness of the library.]
[Trotting over to the book, she picks it up and holds it upside down by the spine, crooking her neck to read the cover.]
"Titillating Tales of the Tawdry: A Compendium of Our Most Cunning Stories".
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[Trotting over to the book, she picks it up and holds it upside down by the spine, crooking her neck to read the cover.]
"Titillating Tales of the Tawdry: A Compendium of Our Most Cunning Stories".
[She raises one perfect eyebrow.]
Are they very cunning? [Linguistically?]