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[showsnopiety]

"You are speaking to Caren Ortensia. I'm here for your needs."

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[showsnopiety]

It's fine. [She's not going to kill him over some graffiti. Some of it was pretty creative!] And no, different people. I don't need to snap Lavi's fingers. Not yet.

[convictionary]

Isn't his name Levi? [Because that sure sounded like she called the short midget the wrong name.] And how'd you get him as a student?

[showsnopiety]

No, different person. Tall, red haired, eye patch. Acts easy going.

[She knows her midget, because of Potato.]

He professed to needing help and I so kindly offered it. I am a soul of generosity.

[Yeah that's a crock but Gaius has to know she's joking.]

[convictionary]

[Yep.]

I feel like he should...way this one guy put it, "Pick a god and pray." [Sucks to be him.]

[showsnopiety]

[She chuckles.]

I like that. That's fitting.

[Oh Fredrick, you and your ways are missed.]

But, Lavi is getting exactly what he asked for.

[convictionary]

You got his carrier id?

[Yes, this will result in a follow up thread if this turns out to have been a thing.]

[showsnopiety]

Not yet, but he has mine. Try the library; I think he'll be doing some studying by himself.

[convictionary]

The library? Gods, pass. I wouldn't set foot in there if I could help it.

[showsnopiety]

Think literacy is catching?

[convictionary]

[He makes a noise: appalled, horrified, as if the ghost of some dread dragon god- hahaha, kidding, everyone knows those don't exist besides Naga, but as if one of those had just slithered through his grave. It is the specter, the dread, dark specter, of education.

That, and-]

Worse. The way this place works I'd walk in there at the wrong time, one of our bosses notices me, and next thing I know I'm 'volunteered' to help 'em with a project like pretty much the rest of our official government jobs are like.

[showsnopiety]

[She makes a choked noise. Is she-Yup. She's laughing at him. Gleefully.]

I've had dreams like those. Piercing together paperwork because some matogot got into the works.

[convictionary]

[And that gets a noise. It's flat, displeased, and vaguely horrified.] Who hasn't had those dreams. Everybody's been having those dreams. And every single time you go back the messages make less and less sense. And you know how many times I had nightmares about it turning out to be about our boss' sex lives?

[showsnopiety]

Or how this person really hates that person in government...

and strangely how it's always with a person new to the place, which you may meet during one thing or another?

Maybe it's the gods screening process.

[Or bad salad.]

[convictionary]

You had that happened to you too, huh? You had the one about the flaming place? [...] Don't remember much besides it's fire and I met my roommate there. The naked guy who pulled a runner after a month here.

[showsnopiety]

Where it was so hot, you'd start to bleed from the eyes and nose?

[She remembers that.]

I met a few people there. That's how I knew how to invoke my weapon. And that's where I first met Sion.

He remembered the dream too.

[convictionary]

Ha! Guess it's more common than I thought. You know, if it wasn't for the other people I'd think it was just this place getting to me, Caren...you know, all of this do gooding going to my head. In six months, crivens, they might be getting me to the point in which I'm swoopin' around, saving small babes from dragons and doing it just because it's the right thing to do.

[showsnopiety]

Please. It's short minded. Kindness wins favour, which means either means saving your skin later, or ensuring some other benefit.

Doing things because you're nice gets you nowhere. You're not stupid enough to fall into into that rut.