[Paul and Palamedes both know the old truism: real men of learning conduct their horrific experiments on themselves and those they know.
Paul takes Palamedes' advice into consideration - it would bring him up to, what? Three names or four, for whatever it is he's supposed to be? And maybe he's being facetious with himself, his own little private joke, but. He also hasn't thought of that as an option before, to choose a name for himself.
A distraction is good, so he seizes on it.]
I'm somehow not surprised to hear you come from a line of scholars. [Paul smiles back, also just a little.] The stag is consistent, and it's either duration or resolution that brings it, in whatever form that takes. I tried communicating with it, but it either didn't want to speak to me, or couldn't.
[Paul is not especially thrilled to admit to failing to talk to a magic deer. He looks over Palamedes' shoulder, trying to make out what he's reading, for something else to focus on.]
So...we wait. [Unless Palamedes has changed his mind about resolution, so to speak, but Paul doubts it.] Look at something 'incredibly haunted'. Ghosts are real, then?
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Paul takes Palamedes' advice into consideration - it would bring him up to, what? Three names or four, for whatever it is he's supposed to be? And maybe he's being facetious with himself, his own little private joke, but. He also hasn't thought of that as an option before, to choose a name for himself.
A distraction is good, so he seizes on it.]
I'm somehow not surprised to hear you come from a line of scholars. [Paul smiles back, also just a little.] The stag is consistent, and it's either duration or resolution that brings it, in whatever form that takes. I tried communicating with it, but it either didn't want to speak to me, or couldn't.
[Paul is not especially thrilled to admit to failing to talk to a magic deer. He looks over Palamedes' shoulder, trying to make out what he's reading, for something else to focus on.]
So...we wait. [Unless Palamedes has changed his mind about resolution, so to speak, but Paul doubts it.] Look at something 'incredibly haunted'. Ghosts are real, then?