mental link | day :034

[ophidia]

[The mental impression that comes with the connection is clean, precise. Confident in reaching like this, touching so many minds at once. If anything there's a desire, simmering beneath, to press and push even further than one simple stated request.]

( I need everything we have on the Carpathans. )

[And he sounds like he expects to get it.]

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[ophidia]

[A spike of something insulted at cousin.]

( Brother. )

[Blunt, like plainly stating the obvious to someone who shouldn't have missed it.]

( How exactly has he been helping you? )

[Still pointed, still watching for every hitch or flinch. So focussed he might not even hear any music at all. Has Seth been working parts of the mission without him?]

[perroquet]

( Only personally. I was weary and disoriented after waking from a deep sleep when we landed outside of Tyrisson, and a rider thought it would be amused to nearly trample me. Seth picked me up and waved down a wagon after that. )

[ A beat as the thrumming shifts to a thoughtful tapping of fingers, casual. ] ( The rider may have been Carpathan, if that helps your inquiry. I didn't exactly get a good look, of sorts. )

[ophidia]

( It doesn't. )

[Dismissive. It doesn't help, and he isn't interested. The pressure of his focus has shifted, though, now less split to what Seth might have been doing, intent more on Gildor himself. And whether he's going to be a liability, attached to Seth.]

( These deep sleeps happen to you a lot? )

[perroquet]

( They don't. )

[ He echos a similar response, pointedly without the dismissive tone. Polite as ever, though that politeness is sharpening not unlike the edges of the other host's consciousness. ]

( They do, however, happen rather frequently among us hosts. Some wake up as I did, though I am told others... do not. ) [ A brief explanation, in case Richard wasn't already aware. ]

[ophidia]

[He wasn't. It's obvious enough from the beat of silence, the pulse of irritation (he hates not knowing things) and mild concern at the news.]

( So any of us can go down like that? ) [Less than ideal.] ( What causes it? )