crystal.

[exequy]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Kostos Averesch
RECIPIENT: All y'all
WHAT: Innocent query
WHEN: Nowish

If anyone here is secretly possessed, I need to speak with you.

[ That's all.

No, wait: ]

This is not a trap.

[ There. ]

Comments

[exequy]

Someday someone is going to kill you.

[ Because he loves Gareth, he sounds slightly regretful about this indisputable fact. With someone else it would just sound like an observation. Or a threat. ]

[foundmyselfagain]

I know.

[ He says it matter-of-factly, calm as you please. It's a matter of time, of course. Who ever heard of someone like him dying of old age? ]

But until then, someone needs to be here to tease you. It's a job I take very seriously.

[faithlikeaseed]

In lieu of someone else stepping up to take over this important job, though, the Inquisition's got a vested interest in keeping you alive.

[foundmyselfagain]

It should consider installing a lift in each of the towers, in that case, lest I perish the next time I have to climb seven flights of stairs.

[faithlikeaseed]

[Gently teasing,] But how else will we keep you in proper shape so you'll be around forever?

[foundmyselfagain]

Kostos is already making me eat vegetables.

[ It's a hard knock life. ]

[faithlikeaseed]

Oh, poor thing! What kind of friend is he that he'd do something that awful to you?

[foundmyselfagain]

A cruel one.

[ Gareth does his very best to make his voice tragic and quite put upon. Woe is him, Myr. ]

[faithlikeaseed]

Clearly. Sounds as if I'll need to come to your rescue. Maybe with a plate of bacon and pastries so you can endure the vegetables.

[He is very sympathetic. Also, bacon and pastries.]

[foundmyselfagain]

I knew you loved me. Unlike Kostos, who hates me and makes me cry.

[faithlikeaseed]

Oh, I think he just shows his love in very funny ways. Why would he want to keep you around otherwise?

Other than some kind of sadistic plan to harvest your tears when you're confronted with a plate of raw cabbage.

[exequy]

Correct.