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thefirstbloom ([personal profile] thefirstbloom) wrote2016-03-17 04:04 am

❦ Empatheias Contact ❦

❧ Contact Trahearne by voice, image, or find him at his apartment in the free district of Verens. He works at Paulson's Books.
canach: (☽ 09)

[personal profile] canach 2016-03-18 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
It changes the number of people who I either have to keep the truth from or pulling into this web of lies you're stringing up.

The Countess isn't an idiot. Whether I tell her or not, she'll figure out something is amiss eventually. And the longer you keep the truth from Syrlya, the worse it's going to be.

[And something like a mental mutter—] I never should have agreed to this from the start.
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[personal profile] canach 2016-03-18 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[Despite how hard he tried, it didn't sound that carefully chosen. Close? Them? Really? But he'll let his personal slights go for now.]

Yes, and tell me this. How do you think Syrlya is going to think when not one, not two, but three people knew the truth and he did not? Or what if someone else from our world appears? Someone from my time and someone who is not caught by one of us first?

What are you going to do then?
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[personal profile] canach 2016-03-19 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
[A sigh. This is just as frustrating as it had been the first time, with no clear way out. Not with Trahearne still stubborn about it. But as he said, it's not that he doesn't understand his brother's reasoning. He's not that heartless.]

While I can see your reason, I still think you're being a fool, Trahearne. You're coddling him, and he's stronger than you think. I should know, I've had to put up with him while dealing with an elder dragon. As did you.

[Oh look, he actually said something nice and praised someone! Kind of.]
Edited 2016-03-19 00:04 (UTC)
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[personal profile] canach 2016-03-19 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[By the Pale Tree.]

Do I need to hold your hand as you tell him?

[There is so much dryness in his voice it's like he sucked out the water out of everything and turned it into a desert.]
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[personal profile] canach 2016-03-19 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh he actually got Trahearne to say something sarcastic. Progress. There might actually be amusement on his side, a small break from the brevity.]

While I refuse to actually do that, if you really do need my company I could oblige this once. After all, I know as well. It would not be far easier if he dealt the both of us together instead of trying to seek me out later.

[So is he actually being considerate or is he looking at it through a practical lens? Or both? Maybe both.]
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[personal profile] canach 2016-03-19 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[A break. ...Which in itself could be considered progress.

And of course, Canach would prefer if this were done immediately. However, this is a bit of interesting news.]


Face Thras?
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[personal profile] canach 2016-03-19 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I remember hearing about those. [And he has no real idea what to make of them. Mostly due to the fact that he has yet to speak with one yet.]

Do you really think it such a good idea?
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[personal profile] canach 2016-03-20 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
It's more that I have no idea what to think of these Arehtei, and I admit that is mostly due to my lack of knowledge and experience with them. It would seem the majority of people here have good relations with them. At the very least they seem more like a combination of the human gods and the Elder Dragons than being entirely one or the other.

But it's the similarities to the latter that concern me. For obvious reasons.

[Those being that they know very well what Elder Dragons are capable of and they're both having to use their own experience to try and get any kind of understanding.]
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[personal profile] canach 2016-03-20 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a moment of silence before he sighs.]

Very well. It's about as much as we can do at this point, anyway.
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[personal profile] canach 2016-03-20 06:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Don't push it beanstalk.]

The only thing that's been too hard has been your foolishness in trying to keep this all a secret to begin with. [A snort.]
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[personal profile] canach 2016-03-20 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Just don't do anything else to make things more complicated.

[That is, don't do anything stupid Trahearne.

And why is he having to play elder brother here.]