Not a clue! He's always testing something or another on himself - at least nobody's eating anybody else this time! [pause] As far as I'm aware! There's only been a few murders so far, but who knows what else could happen?
[The old Skulduggery would definitely want to know more about the murders. The new Skulduggery is more-or-less "that tracks" about it.]
That sounds about right. [ugh he doesn't want to keep looking at her but also... the possible questions...] If you're affected, I assume that means the captain is also affected. Is he also cursed with honesty? ...Can he only be cursed by water as well?
[or is that poor bastard stuck like this for the duration???]
Is that what we want? [she certainly wouldn't want the barriers to fail!] I don't know. Tell him that mistakes are learning opportunities. And that if you pretend you did something on purpose that nobody will know better. Unless you're stuck telling the truth. So maybe fix that.
Do you really think it matters if I'm nice to him or not? He isn't going to listen to me either way. [he already made that clear with the whole "blah blah blah magicians are better than sorcerers" shtick...]
[she places her hand over where her heart would be for the briefest of seconds, and then turns her face to continue looking at Skulduggery expectantly.]
Well, there's nothing I'd really want to ask him, because there's nothing I'd really want to know! If I could tell him anything, I'd tell him to give up, but it wouldn't be very nice, so I wouldn't say it!
[and well that seems like the end of that conversation, back to work. namely playing the sacrifice man to ghosts game underneath her desk.]
no, she's not dignifying that with a response, just makes a shooing go away motion at Skulduggery so he can go be where he clearly rather be, while she's going to just hang out and gossip with her buddy h-
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[no ava, don't get distracted by cannibalism]
Ugh. So is he at least attempting to clean up this mess? Or does his entertainment override his embarrassment.
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That sounds about right. [ugh he doesn't want to keep looking at her but also... the possible questions...] If you're affected, I assume that means the captain is also affected. Is he also cursed with honesty? ...Can he only be cursed by water as well?
[or is that poor bastard stuck like this for the duration???]
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[turns to Skulduggery]
Your man is sulking. Maybe go... give him some pep talk. Or whatever it is you two do.
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I thought we wanted him to fail at magic.
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Is that what we want? [she certainly wouldn't want the barriers to fail!] I don't know. Tell him that mistakes are learning opportunities. And that if you pretend you did something on purpose that nobody will know better. Unless you're stuck telling the truth. So maybe fix that.
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[see she'll back you up, even if she's not entirely convinced he'll listen to her either]
Don't go kicking the hornets nest while it's down.
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Okay. Fine. Obviously, I was already going to go bother him already, so you're right, it doesn't matter what either of you say. [wow yeah real mature.
you know what, though? fine.]
One last thing from me, then. Friday... is there anything you can think of that I should ask him? Maybe something you would ask, if you could?
[Obviously this isn't because he feels bad for being a dick to her, this is just. You know. Using a dude's screwdriver against him.]
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[and well that seems like the end of that conversation, back to work. namely playing the sacrifice man to ghosts game underneath her desk.]
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no, she's not dignifying that with a response, just makes a shooing go away motion at Skulduggery so he can go be where he clearly rather be, while she's going to just hang out and gossip with her buddy h-
oh.
Friday seems rather preoccupied too.
just... will stand here awkwardly for a moment.]
Anyway.