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eachdraidh2014-12-27 02:08 pm
vrykolakas) wrote in eachdraidh2014-12-27 02:08 pm
v. video. open to both courts.
[The Brucolac isn't in his rooms, for those who know what they look like. Rather, the locket shows him cross-legged on the floor of an inn room in Mair, with a ledger on his lap, a teacup in his hand (Alice will recognise it) and a pile of coins set nice and obviously by his knee. The king was in his counting house, etc.]
Who amongst you can restore sight to one blinded?
I'm willing to pay, provided your service is prompt and effective. [Scratching thoughtfully at his neat-trimmed stubble, evidently assessing some mental diary of appointments. He's got to fit in visiting fire-nymphs, hearing Alyosha lecture at the Barrel, potentially roughing up some brothel-owners, selling drugs and, oh, and somehow finding Morla's favour. His mouth turns down with faint, irritable displeasure at the chaos of it all.] Preferably before the end of the month.
Who amongst you can restore sight to one blinded?
I'm willing to pay, provided your service is prompt and effective. [Scratching thoughtfully at his neat-trimmed stubble, evidently assessing some mental diary of appointments. He's got to fit in visiting fire-nymphs, hearing Alyosha lecture at the Barrel, potentially roughing up some brothel-owners, selling drugs and, oh, and somehow finding Morla's favour. His mouth turns down with faint, irritable displeasure at the chaos of it all.] Preferably before the end of the month.
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Just how it is. You can't be there, either.
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Why not.
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I ain't gonna hurt her, but you can't be there. No one can.
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I know very well that you won't hurt her. No one wants the resultant mess. But for her damnable sake, I won't throw her to a strange Seelie shardbearer and walk off without even an explanation to offer her.
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[he doesn't know the brucolac's abilities, doesn't know a thing about him, but he doesn't want someone getting close to death because of his own abilities, either. he doesn't know what's going to happen.]
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[But at that, he has to relent, his tongue flicking from his mouth and lashing unhappily before it coils back behind his teeth. He breathes out slowly through his nose.]
This is for her to decide. I will put your terms before her. My name is the Brucolac; may I have yours to pass onto her?
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[he relaxes somewhat, knowing the brucolac has given in for now.]
Ben Hawkins.
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She says she'll take your help.
[Half daring to hope this might come off well. It shows in his voice, which is tinged with a relief he tries to keep down. He had expected this to be another increase in his debts; yet more gold or silver or blood owed.]
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Okay. I can start down there tonight.
[the sooner the better, he figures.]
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[His eyes flash, look cold; he lingers, staring for a few moments, before he cuts the feed.]