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crystal | letter | cease and desist notices slipped under her door | action

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[katabasis]

And if he is?

[rathercommon]

Then -

[ She knows what she ought to say here. Then we put a stop to it. Then we take his life. But even as she thinks that, she thinks of the little boy in the alley. He's just a kid. And she thinks of the golem standing over him, the aching chill and the terror as she saved his life. It's so stupid, thinking that she's responsible for anything having to do with him just because she saved him once, but -

Why couldn't it have been anyone else? Deveraux, or Tallow - She'd have had no problem killing them. But instead, Mandrake. ]

Then we figure it out from there.

[katabasis]

[If there's anything to be sussed out from the pause he takes, it must be a visual cue lost here. So:]

I'll see to putting someone with sharp eyes on his trail. They won't be able to follow in the Gallows, but anywhere else seems easy enough.

[rathercommon]

[ A release of breath. ]

Thanks. This is - really good of you, Captain Flint. I really do appreciate it.

[katabasis]

[Smash cut to Nathaniel's corpse and a Walrus man saying, 'Oh you said follow?']

It was Serah Bai's idea. You can thank her.

[rathercommon]

I can scold her, more like. I honestly don't know why she talked to you before talking to me, if she thought he was dangerous.

[katabasis]

[Maybe because one of the people in this conversation is a teen and one is an old man with a passion for murder.]

I believe she knows something about the value of making dangerous things known to people willing to contain them. No harm in sharing heavy work.

[rathercommon]

Well, yes, but I obviously ought to shoulder a bit of that weight, as well.

[ kitty "literally just had an internal freakout about murder two minutes ago" jones ]

[katabasis]

Speaking technically, I believe you're the spymaster in all this. You'll need to decide what we do with any information we find.

[rathercommon]

[ Huh. Is he patronizing her? From nearly anyone else, she'd assume that was patronizing. But that's not really Flint's way. ]

I suppose that's true. Yeah. Well, with any luck, there won't be anything to find.

[katabasis]

I'll keep my fingers crossed. In the mean time, you might consider finding someone with better access to the Gallows than my men to keep tabs on him while he's there. You can't for obvious reasons, but someone ought to.

[rathercommon]

I will. Thank you.