crystal.

[cozen]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Bastien
RECIPIENT: Everyone
NOTES: Threadjacking etc. always welcome.

Hello, everyone. I have a little project—I think it might serve us to have some agreed-upon replies to hard questions. Say someone asks you what is a rifter. Or they ask if it is true we once housed the mage Anders. The kind of thing where a wrong answer might cause us some trouble.

We will not settle on the right answers today. That will a longer conversation with the Diplomacy Division, I think. If you had a very clever answer that impressed someone very much, you are welcome to share it, of course, but right now I really want to know what difficult questions you have been asked while you are working, or while you are out in the city, or when your mother writes to you worried about the company you are keeping—although it does seem like most of us are not being written to by any mothers.

Separate question, if you have a living parent who writes to you, say so.

Comments

[cozen]

The damage Corypheus did with the Breach has affected the passage of time, so what feels like ten years has in fact only been five. Or maybe two and a half.

Two and half.

[bouchonne]

Clever. And that means that I'm still in my early twenties.

[cozen]

[ Bastien will permit him to get away with that math, out of love. ]

Mon charmant jeune homme.

What answer would you accept?

[bouchonne]

Hmm. Good question. Perhaps something along the lines of, "there isn't actually a war going on; they're all lying to you."

[cozen]

[ That pulls a laugh out of him. ]

Flying dracolisks? Magical explosives? Non. You must have been smoking something. It was only an earthquake.

[bouchonne]

Exactly! Everyone would feel so much better if we just worked hard to make them think they were mad.

[cozen]

I'll get to work.

On you, specifically.

[bouchonne]

[ A laugh - ]

Go on. What'll you start with?

[cozen]

Our cats, Whiskey and Rat Red—such elegant creatures, and here you are bucking tradition and stereotypes not being a dog person at all.

[bouchonne]

Make it more convincing. Rat Red could never be elegant.

[cozen]

Our scratchy, twitchy alley cat.

[bouchonne]

That might actually be a particularly hairy nug.