mental link | morning of day :039
[ The ever present mental music that plays from the bard's end of the connection grows invasively louder sometime after breakfast, and it is rather anxious. The morning has been heavy enough already with packing getting underway, but this is due to something different. While the music in him is clear as ever, his thoughts stumble across the connection sloppily and desperately. ]
( I require a detective... I think. Oh dear, this is quite dire… )
[ He knows of several, but with the situation being as dire as he claims, well... he may need as much help as possible. All hands on deck. ]
( I believe someone has discovered that I am not Carbauschian, and... has poisoned me. )
[ The pauses between coherent thought are more than a bit dramatic, but he's being quite serious. ]
( I require a detective... I think. Oh dear, this is quite dire… )
[ He knows of several, but with the situation being as dire as he claims, well... he may need as much help as possible. All hands on deck. ]
( I believe someone has discovered that I am not Carbauschian, and... has poisoned me. )
[ The pauses between coherent thought are more than a bit dramatic, but he's being quite serious. ]
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( But I think I'd be glad to be proven wrong. )
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Or promises I don't understand the importance of.
[ He's really not one to MAKE promises, unless it's "I'll be the best" or "I'll destroy every last one of you who gets in my way". ]
I come from a world where heroes are real, Joshua. There are terrible people out there, and there are people willing to do bad things to protect good people. That it's such a hard leap for some of this team to realize that there is a way to do good and be good, and still get results is -- it's new to me. But, it's also real to me. Not naivety.
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[ There it is. Him putting his foot in it. ]
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But he doesn't say any of that. ]
For a minute there, you made that sound really good.
[ And then, of course, he ruined it. As he does. ]
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[ HE TAKES GREAT OFFENSE TO THIS, JOSHUA. ]
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