CRYSTALS | Open

[aestivation]

FORM: crystal
SENDER: ya boy
RECIPIENT: all of you
WHAT: is your sending crystal running you better go catch it
WHEN: vaguely Post-Island
WHERE: kirkwall
NOTES: i'm cool with transitioning this into a mini-log if anyone actually wants to go look!

A sending crystal is missing from the storerooms.

[ the inflection's shallow, and oddly-placed — as though someone speaking across a great, flat distance. ]

The assignment records were last updated three days ago; they don't account for its absence. I've completed a search of the Gallows towers, excluding restricted and residential areas.

[ not for lack of trying. no one spoke of privacy before the rebellion. ]

I’d ask your escort through these, or barring this, that you keep an eye open within any shared living quarters and workspaces. If you've information to contribute, please inform Casimir Lyov, in Research.

I am, [ a pause. ] distinctive.

Comments

[aestivation]

Not since leaving Nevarra.

[ it had seemed wiser, without goodwill to burn. he can't say what it might do now. a moment of his own, he searches for the pattern the words ought to follow, collects what imitation of warmth can be mustered: ]

It would be good to speak. [ it's a poor bit of acting ] It's been some time,

[ that much, at least, is true. ]

We might discuss it then, if you would like.

[ he knows little of the war. outside hasmal's little dunes, now, the need for information presses closer. for all their years distant, kostos is a more familiar point of view, one with reference to draw upon. he'll have changed since the observations in casimir's old logs (other people so often do), but it'll be easier to strain the facts through, than from a stranger. ]