Luceti Appointments

[i_speak_softly]

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[i_speak_softly]

[OH GOD NO MORE MUFFINS.]

Giles, really, I'm fine.

[daisy023]

Most here are human-shaped, and powerful. I don't think it may be a sampling but...

[A thought dawns into her. She remembers the Commandant's accidental word to describe Luceti.]

...Maybe there are more humans, baseline ones, in the other "regions".

[consultmybooks]

[Blame your brother. Giles doesn't have a lot to go on for anthropomorphic turtles. As, well, you well know.]

...I'm sorry for, um, what I did. In the forest. How I was.

[i_speak_softly]

Don't worry about it. Are you all right now?

[i_speak_softly]

[Don gives this due consideration: the idea of multiple enclosures, each biased towards different kinds of people. Sample populations...]

Daisy, I think we're starting to give the Malnosso too much credit.

[daisy023]

[Her head tilts upwards.]

It's usually dangerous to underestimate an enemy. What do you mean, sir?

[i_speak_softly]

[He sighs, giving up the train of thought.]

Look, it doesn't really matter. There's nothing we can do to or about the Malnosso, so our estimate of them is irrelevant.

[daisy023]

...Understood.

[Unfortunately, he is right. She sits.]

There's just so much I'd like to know... I hate being kept in the dark.

[Daisy-023 turns to him, with a look of curiosity. She had never imagined she'd have a talk like this with a xenotype. Guess this place opened minds, after all...]

Thank you for your ideas, sir... Sorry I went on with my paranoia.

[i_speak_softly]

It's all right. [He smiles a little.] After being here so long, sometimes I need to be reminded to keep fighting back.

So very sorry about the delay T_T

[consultmybooks]

I'm...

...better. Helios is back, at least. That's, that's sorted a few things out.

[i_speak_softly]

[Don presumes that Helios knows something about Giles' problem, and will be (or already was) able to help him with it.]

Is there anything I can do for you?

[He means it plurally - you, Helios, even Frederic, who was acting very worryingly a few days ago.]

[consultmybooks]

...I'm not sure Frederic is in any fit state to look after himself just yet. If you could just, um, if you could check in on him once in a while...I'm sure they would both appreciate it.

[i_speak_softly]

I - I'm not sure he wants me around, to be honest.

[consultmybooks]

Are you certain?

...whatever it was, his mood might have improved now that Helios is back.

[i_speak_softly]

I'm not certain he meant anything he told me that morning.

[consultmybooks]

Which morning in particular was this, then?

...we haven't spoken since our first day home.

[i_speak_softly]

Three days ago.

[consultmybooks]

...how did he seem to you, then?

[i_speak_softly]

... Not well.

[He's trying really hard not to give details, because it was very much a private conversation. But - take the hint, Giles. Talk to your friend.]

[consultmybooks]

[Hint taken. Here's the problem.]

He has, in no uncertain terms, said that the only communicating we'll be doing for a while is a "hello" if we should happen to pass one another on the path.

[i_speak_softly]

[This is bad.]

Giles, someone has to talk to him.

[consultmybooks]

That leaves Helios.

...who, I feel forced to reiterate, recently returned from the dead.

[i_speak_softly]

He doesn't have any other friends? [He knows everyone else from Frederic's own world has gone home, but...] I know last time Helios was gone someone else was staying with him.

[consultmybooks]

If he does, I don't know them.

[i_speak_softly]

What about... Poland? Frederic told me about him once...

[And Don didn't entirely understand it, but it seemed important.]