Seeing as how I refuse to have a bad time with you, if it can at all be avoided...
[ Well. That's a little different. Still questionable, yes, but involving fewer corpses, which is a bonus in Loki's mind.
He listens to her settling in the hot water and comes around towards the corner of the privacy screen. He picks up her clothes from the chair, sets them in a different chair nearby, and settles in, half-turned away from her. ]
It's definitely weird. [ He hasn't asked Alexandrie about it. Gwen still terrifies him more than a little bit and he's not sure what he'd say if she demanded to know why he was asking about it. ] Sordid, however, well. [ He leans forward (away from her) and puts his elbows on his knees. ] There's someone in the Scouting division whose name is Fitcher; apparently, she owes money to roughly five different gambling establishments here in town.
The head of the Forces Division supposedly has a mistress here in Hightown. [ He wishes he had more intel on that one, actually. ] There's a recently married woman in the Research division who has completely filled an absent Warden's inbox with correspondence in the last month. The Warden is not her husband, by the by; apparently, they don't get along.
And a Rifter by the name of Richard Dickerson, which is a pseudonym if I've ever heard one, has a snake that lives in his clothes. [ Loki would very much like to meet the snake. ]
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[ Well. That's a little different. Still questionable, yes, but involving fewer corpses, which is a bonus in Loki's mind.
He listens to her settling in the hot water and comes around towards the corner of the privacy screen. He picks up her clothes from the chair, sets them in a different chair nearby, and settles in, half-turned away from her. ]
It's definitely weird. [ He hasn't asked Alexandrie about it. Gwen still terrifies him more than a little bit and he's not sure what he'd say if she demanded to know why he was asking about it. ] Sordid, however, well. [ He leans forward (away from her) and puts his elbows on his knees. ] There's someone in the Scouting division whose name is Fitcher; apparently, she owes money to roughly five different gambling establishments here in town.
The head of the Forces Division supposedly has a mistress here in Hightown. [ He wishes he had more intel on that one, actually. ] There's a recently married woman in the Research division who has completely filled an absent Warden's inbox with correspondence in the last month. The Warden is not her husband, by the by; apparently, they don't get along.
And a Rifter by the name of Richard Dickerson, which is a pseudonym if I've ever heard one, has a snake that lives in his clothes. [ Loki would very much like to meet the snake. ]