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

[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.]