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Ashley looked at Alexander, clamouring "No, no! I-I don't want to go back in the box!" he stood up and clasped his hands together, as if in prayer "I'll be quiet, I-I promise!"
Realising his shouting contradicted he vow of silence, he covered his mouth with one of his hands and let out a muffled apology. Unable to maintain quietness, however, he began to speak again. "And I didn't even 'sneak' into your room! A-and if anything, it's your creaky old house that gave me away!".
The likeness of this clone to the real Ashley was uncanny - not only did it look like him, but it even argued like him in that same uncertain tone that always suggested that - while he wanted to argue - he never wanted to fall out.
It was this simple - yet playful - parry and reposte that had brought Ashley and Alexander together in the first place and that which formed the backbone of their relationship.
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