bouchonne: (hmmm?)
Byerly Vlad Rutyer ([personal profile] bouchonne) wrote in [community profile] therookery2021-01-29 08:31 pm

crystal


FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Byerly
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: None


[ The tone here is quite amused, even if the topic is not particularly...amusing. ]

So, now that we've all woken up, I'm sure there's just one question on everyone's mind. What are we going to do with all you naughty little boys and girls who are dreaming about joining the Venatori?
katabasis: (nowhere.)

[personal profile] katabasis 2021-02-17 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[His attention cuts sharp over to her, then back to Byerly. And then for the first time since standing, he lapses—not a pause. This is a halt in momentum. Running up against some barrier that he is frustrated to find so solid still.

Flint fetches the discarded cup back up. It hasn't been so long since he set it down that the coffee has lost much of its heat. Firmly, like a blunt hammer with no heat—]


If the conversation you would prefer we have is about why I'm standing in this room rather than what we should do outside of it, you're going to be disappointed.
hassaran: (_040 bangparty  (50))

[personal profile] hassaran 2021-02-17 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yseult's gaze narrows very slightly, just for a second. It could as easily be perception, or annoyance. ]

Things like this have happened before. And worse. Strange, disruptive, even bloody. And there have never been defections, or lasting morale problems, or any challenge to leadership. Why are you so concerned this time?
Edited (when is this anyway idk) 2021-02-17 02:58 (UTC)
katabasis: ([022])

[personal profile] katabasis 2021-02-17 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Ask your real question.
hassaran: (_019 peaked  (17))

[personal profile] hassaran 2021-02-18 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
It's clear you know what it is already. You might have answered it by now.
katabasis: (and slay)

[personal profile] katabasis 2021-02-20 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
And have whatever I might say understood as an effort to persuade and manipulate you? Why bother.

[To Byerly:]

Is this your concern too? My part in this.
katabasis: (which is higher than himself)

[personal profile] katabasis 2021-02-24 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[He bites back a snort and instead downs the remaining contents of his cup.]

I've been telling you what I know. No, no one is running off to join the Venatori. But between news of desertions in Orlais, the tenor of those dreams, and the dissatisfaction I know we've all seen in one form or another, we would be fools not to offer some reassurance for anyone who might be wondering why they're here. Call it paranoia if that's what you prefer; any captain would tell you the same.