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abjuring ([personal profile] galvanising) wrote2017-10-01 08:46 pm
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katabasis: (accept whatever comes to you)

[personal profile] katabasis 2018-11-03 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
I may have mentioned something similar to Bonaventura.

[They've drawn a middling-at-best hand of cards and chasing both high and low cards. The longer the Inquisition takes to make some concrete decisions, the less likely they are to have any realistic means of accomplishing what must be.]

Better to remove him from the question entirely, I think. At the end of the day, if the Inquisition's allies could be moved to first take some action before anything decision is made, I doubt anyone would hesitate. Over him or much of anything else.

[The ghost of that grin hasn't quite faded entirely; it lingers in the direct look he fixes Nell with now.]

Would that be worth it, do you think?
katabasis: (and slay)

[personal profile] katabasis 2018-11-08 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
I do.

[Isn't it strange, how something simple said with such certainty can at once make something less like an idea and more like something obvious and already under way? And for a moment, Flint leaves it just there - a wary, calculated thing. As if he is somehow still gauging her even after what's already been said. He doesn't look past her; his attention is fixed, razor sharp, the ease in the line of his arm forgotten.

Then, apparently having made his decisions, he leans forward across the table by a degree.]


You joined the Inquisition out of Llomerryn, is that right?

[He's done his homework.]
katabasis: (with the badness of men?)

[personal profile] katabasis 2018-11-08 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Then you and I both know what work those people might be trusted with.

[There's risk in this. No, not just risk - deadly danger. Speaking any part of this aloud only makes it more likely to lead to some dark end. But that, he thinks, is the trouble. Waiting. Keeping still while the rest of the world tilts around them. He sees it here in the eager lines of her face as much as he had from Walrus' sterndeck while he'd watched the Galicia devoured by the sea without Radonis to keep her company.]

Which is a rare thing, I think - trust. So much of the world has a way of making any desire to change it into a something poisonous. But what I've put in motion requires more than what I can do myself, and I sense you and I are of a similar mind.

Our friend's value, if he has any, currently hinges entirely on decisions made in the North. I mean to take that decision from them by showing the world their true colors before they have the luxury to dictate the narrative. Able men and women, made to look a certain way and seen to be doing certain things, might encourage the Inquisition's allies to draw their own conclusions before someone else tells them how to think.
katabasis: (accept whatever comes to you)

[personal profile] katabasis 2018-11-08 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Were he not leaned that half degree forward, it might be easy to miss the way Flint's expression twitches toward satisfaction in the smoky, irregular light of the tavern loft. It's evidence of some minuscule but constant process of recalculation, the fulfillment of some predetermined point followed by the immediate shift of his attention to whatever thing lays beyond it.]

And who or what would you recommend as this more attractive option?

[He has thoughts. But let's pretend for just a moment that he doesn't - that anything she says will serve to turn the direction of that adamant momentum.]