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

Private

[justice_is_blond]

Do you think someone is possessed?

[foundmyselfagain]

What if we're openly possessed?

I, for one, am possessed of good cheer and kindness towards my fellow man.

[ This is a joke that he would only make with like three people. ]

[champions]

I like to think that I am possessed of extraordinary charm and grace, myself. Maybe we both need to confess.

[champions]

You are very subtle.

∞

[exequy]

No. That would be easier.

[exequy]

Should I have whispered?

[wheretheferngrows]

[wheretheferngrows]

...are you some sort of funny person?

[pause]

You're really terrible at it.

[champions]

I am sure you could make a whisper careless, if you tried.

[foundmyselfagain]

No, he was tragically born without a sense of humor. The midwife tried everything she could, but sometimes there's nothing you can do.

[faithlikeaseed]

[...well okay.]

[foundmyselfagain]

My dear, if anyone were guilty of such a thing, surely it would be you. I doubt you need to confess, anyone can surely see it.

Is Kostos taking confessions, anyway? I didn't know he became a Brother.

private;

[faithlikeaseed]

That's one way to do it.

[exequy]

Careless and direct are not the same thing. I have a question. Posing it delicate terms would either be pointless or prevent people from understanding it well enough to answer. If there is someone out there who is disguising that they're an abomination but too stupid to answer me privately, that's... weird, and not my fault.

[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. ]

[misdirection_hex]

I've got to know. What would you do if I were to say yes?

That's also not a trap.

[exequy]

Do you think possession is funny?

[wheretheferngrows]

[shit]

1/2

[justnice]

[exequy]

You've met my mother's midwife.

2/2

[justnice]

How would you know? If it weren't secret.

[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.

∞

[justice_is_blond]

[He feels like he's going to regret this, but:]

Easier? What is it you're trying to do?

∞

[exequy]

We can try the other ways next.

[wheretheferngrows]

Don't see how it matters--you seem to have got sense of humour enough for make up for it.

[what's with all these funny shems, ugh]