i am just a picture frame | june catch-all

[terriblepurpose]

Who: Paul Atreides, Ortus Nigenad, and friends
What: Memory share + other
When: June
Where: Various

Content Warnings: corpses, torture, death, gun violence, eugenics

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[noniad]

[The intellectual interest Palamedes shows in relation to the bubble combined with that particular necromantic briskness to assert his own competency in the work wrests an small, surprised smile from Ortus, if only for a moment. He clears his throat like one shaking bone dust from their robes, his hand coming up to politely cover it, and he finds that the expression lingers wonder than he expects, softening in the relief of knowing that Camilla Hect survived.

He has known too many brave young dead. Even if this one is a stranger to him, it does not change his sentiment.]

It does ease my mind. [But he notes the omission of the Warden, the specificity of completely; perhaps Palamedes will observe Ortus' observation in turn.] As it eases it to know that I have been able to assist in your understanding, Warden. The others spoke at length about the unusual nature of our circumstances, in terms of the necromantic theorems at work. Perhaps you may discuss them with my Lady.

[Translated from the circumnavigating reticence of the Ninth, what Ortus means might best be expressed as: it would be good for Harrow and Palamedes to talk about what happened, necromancer to necromancer, and perhaps friend to friend. That, perhaps further than that, he is set at greater ease to know that there is one less terrible, grief-wracked secret in the world that lies between people like the uneasy dead themselves.

This articulated, he extends his hand back towards Palamedes, soft fingers half-curled inward with only traces of his usual timidness.]

And I would say, in answer to your question, that I have no doubt of the prowess of a Sixth House Warden in their discipline.