[ Mortalitasi—they tend to the dead, but the king and the nobility, all the way down, also keep them as advisors. So he isn't going to insult Nikos by explaining what a Speaker is. (He'll find some other way to insult him, probably.) ]
He says he wants to help. But unless what happened at the Grand Necropolis was an accident—
[ It was an inside job, or a job with inside help. ]
[Waiting for an insult is like waiting for a rock to be dropped on your head. Nikos should snipe it, strike at what's exposed. He might yet. First, he considers.]
What are you expecting I'll find? [Important caveat:] If I decide to do this for you.
[ The second worst thing to say, after I'm sorry. ]
Probably nothing. He probably wants to help, like he says he does. But if he is here to cover something up or cause trouble, I don't want to miss it because no one bothered to look.
[More unimpressed with the first part than the second, Nikos stares at the wall opposite of him. Weighs the ask that feels more like an order when it's the Inquisition, when it comes from Kostos, and the potential of what will be learned, and, you know, the fact that this is Kostos.
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Date: 2018-10-19 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-19 05:13 pm (UTC)Depends on what we're speaking about. What is it you want?
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Date: 2018-10-20 12:07 am (UTC)Speaker Ilias Fabria is here.
[ Mortalitasi—they tend to the dead, but the king and the nobility, all the way down, also keep them as advisors. So he isn't going to insult Nikos by explaining what a Speaker is. (He'll find some other way to insult him, probably.) ]
He says he wants to help. But unless what happened at the Grand Necropolis was an accident—
[ It was an inside job, or a job with inside help. ]
Can you look into him?
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Date: 2018-10-21 03:07 pm (UTC)What are you expecting I'll find? [Important caveat:] If I decide to do this for you.
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Date: 2018-10-21 11:51 pm (UTC)I don't know.
[ The second worst thing to say, after I'm sorry. ]
Probably nothing. He probably wants to help, like he says he does. But if he is here to cover something up or cause trouble, I don't want to miss it because no one bothered to look.
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Date: 2018-10-23 12:57 am (UTC)[Even more important:]
What do I get out of it?
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Date: 2018-10-23 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-10-24 05:20 am (UTC)Fuck off.
[--Wait, maybe he was trying to be funny. Or something. Still annoyed, but coming at it again,]
The Inquisition wants me to spy on Speaker Ilias Fabria. Is that what you mean, by 'public service'?
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Date: 2018-10-26 03:27 pm (UTC)[ So... yes. And no. ]
And if he isn’t involved with the Venatori, he might be involved with someone else.
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Date: 2018-10-27 05:44 pm (UTC)[More unimpressed with the first part than the second, Nikos stares at the wall opposite of him. Weighs the ask that feels more like an order when it's the Inquisition, when it comes from Kostos, and the potential of what will be learned, and, you know, the fact that this is Kostos.
Eventually--]
All right.
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Date: 2018-10-29 02:23 am (UTC)[ Offhand, not sounding particularly tortured. He can mind a few manners when it isn't a matter of pride. ]