Sending crystal;

[ragweed]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: Kit Gandir
RECIPIENT: Locked to Ser Coupe, Madame de Cedoux, Ser Ashlock, and Ser Norrington.
WHAT: A message describing his experience speaking with the Tevinter apprentice, Benedict Artemaeus.
WHEN: During Benedict's time in solitary confinement.
WHERE: The Gallows
NOTES: None.

I've spent some time interacting with Benedict Artemaeus at the suggestion of Madame de Cedoux and with permission from Ser Coupe. [There's a long pause. Possibly the message has been edited a lot, and somewhat clumsily, by someone who really doesn't get this magical social media shit yet.

Then,] Let me just get right to the point, if you folks want to use this kid as some kind of resource in the fight against the Venatori or Corypheus, you're going to need to get him out of solitary pretty damn fast. [Maybe also quit scaring the shit out of him, he thinks, but doesn't add.] He's a quick study; I taught him a pretty complicated card game in almost no time, and short of making a few rookie errors, he picked up on it fast. I get the impression everyone around him thinks he's an idiot, to the point where maybe he thinks he's one too. He's been chronically under-estimated by everyone around him.

[A pause.] He's a prick, but he's not an evil prick. If you get him out of solitary, give me a little time with him, I think I can bring him around.

Comments

[paladingus]

As long as the "we" you speak of means volunteers like yourself and Serah Gandir, and doesn't include the templars, there's no issue here.

It's not on me to judge how you use your time or where you prioritize him, but given his track record, we have just cause to be wary.

[ipseite]

I will not be working directly with the boy, no. But nor would I expect you to do so; we have the benefit of a variety of skill-sets and need not waste them through misuse. Your work is elsewhere, of course, unless or until such time as it is your skills that become, in this instance, the most - pressingly relevant.

( She means if he needs to be fucking dealt with. )

I don't recommend lowering one's guard.

[ragweed]

[Yeah, he knows what she means. He holds his tongue again.]

I'll keep working with him and keep everyone posted on how it goes. So--it's safe for me to say he's going to be moved from solitary? [And soon, he hopes.]

[limier]

[ as none of the points raised this far have much to do with his isolation — ]

It will be done. The absence of distraction may have aided us in your contact, but the returns diminish.

No one suggests that we coddle the boy, [ gandir. a reminder, this, that bleeding hearts need be watched (how quickly they stain) ] Or that we devote an excess of resources therein.

If the Inquisition is to feed and keep him, we need dredge something useful from it, no? Translations, [ a dry intake of breath ] Are the least of these.

[paladingus]

Considering, though, that the last person he seemed to be getting along with caught a Horror spell in the face--[Not the most tactful of wording, especially with the person who caught even more of that spell also on the line, and he acknowledges this with a brief apologetic cough.]

--he probably ought to stay on the magebane, regardless of where he's put. And Serah Gandir should remember to be cautious.

[ipseite]

A fair assessment.

And we can ourselves only do so much; it will be for him to, as he sees new options, come to the table. Perhaps earning sufficient trust to see further concessions made on that point might be a goal to set him.

( Potential is Gandir's word; malleable is Petrana's. Manipulating him with kindness is just more effective than doing it with torture. )

[ragweed]

[Simon can't know how that visual makes Kit's blood go cold. He can't see Kit put the crystal down and walk away from it for a moment.

He does come back, reactivates it in time to catch the last of Petrana's words.] Great, [he says, his voice decidedly flat.] Let me know when he's moved, I'll go see him.

[He hangs up.]