See, if you said that without making a face in the middle, then I'd believe you were Second to the core. I overheard one of them once insisting that standing under three feet from our viewscreens was "against safety protocols."
[Foolish. It's like they don't even linger in pockets of cleaning chemical vapors to test their endurance. Maybe it's the Second who is a bunch of cowards, actually.
Anyway, nobody said Mysterious Visitor Guy could ask questions, especially not when Palamedes has a puzzle to solve. He says,] Thirteen.
[—like he's not even acknowledging a question was asked, somehow, despite answering it, and then goes on,] Second necromancers are especially the worst, so I'm ruling that out, too. What about— Cam, does the Second even have Scholars?
['I assume they can read,' comes Cam's voice, which is the most polite way to say 'those meatheads? eh' one could come up with. Palamedes snorts.]
Fair hit. You, [mystery fella, hi,] I'm only willing to feign ignorance when I get caught showing a Second visitor the public Archives if I know he's a Scholar-equivalent, so is that it?
[This is carrot and stick at once, and like, it would work on him? So.]
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[Foolish. It's like they don't even linger in pockets of cleaning chemical vapors to test their endurance. Maybe it's the Second who is a bunch of cowards, actually.
Anyway, nobody said Mysterious Visitor Guy could ask questions, especially not when Palamedes has a puzzle to solve. He says,] Thirteen.
[—like he's not even acknowledging a question was asked, somehow, despite answering it, and then goes on,] Second necromancers are especially the worst, so I'm ruling that out, too. What about— Cam, does the Second even have Scholars?
['I assume they can read,' comes Cam's voice, which is the most polite way to say 'those meatheads? eh' one could come up with. Palamedes snorts.]
Fair hit. You, [mystery fella, hi,] I'm only willing to feign ignorance when I get caught showing a Second visitor the public Archives if I know he's a Scholar-equivalent, so is that it?
[This is carrot and stick at once, and like, it would work on him? So.]