Given that not even God is a mindreader, perhaps His Saints can be forgiven for the lack.
Given that Augustine the First has never encountered Palamedes Sextus before, perhaps he can be forgiven for not following the intuitive leaping of his logic.
He hears: They're in protective storage; the Sixth has a bloodline problem.
"I never quite was sure why that thing had to be parked quite so close to Dominicus," he admits, and a tiny little line between his eyebrows deepens quizzically. "Really, it's a miracle you don't all have a lot more cancer, practically sitting in its outer atmosphere — although I suppose you lot aren't afraid to treat those aggressively."
(He'll just step hard on that particular sore subject, none the wiser, then.)
"As for service — did that phrase actually fall out of style when I wasn't looking? Damn." That, there, is a hell of a disappointment for Augustine, or so it appears. But the Disappointment Expression doesn't stick around for long, because it's replaced with one of extreme skepticism.
"Which spooky spaceship would that be, if you don't subscribe to the theory that all ships in the Nine Houses are, in fact, His?"
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Given that Augustine the First has never encountered Palamedes Sextus before, perhaps he can be forgiven for not following the intuitive leaping of his logic.
He hears: They're in protective storage; the Sixth has a bloodline problem.
"I never quite was sure why that thing had to be parked quite so close to Dominicus," he admits, and a tiny little line between his eyebrows deepens quizzically. "Really, it's a miracle you don't all have a lot more cancer, practically sitting in its outer atmosphere — although I suppose you lot aren't afraid to treat those aggressively."
(He'll just step hard on that particular sore subject, none the wiser, then.)
"As for service — did that phrase actually fall out of style when I wasn't looking? Damn." That, there, is a hell of a disappointment for Augustine, or so it appears. But the Disappointment Expression doesn't stick around for long, because it's replaced with one of extreme skepticism.
"Which spooky spaceship would that be, if you don't subscribe to the theory that all ships in the Nine Houses are, in fact, His?"