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crystal; a small aside

[libratus]

[ Idly, out of the blue as usual, ]

Are you very familiar with Enchanter Averesch?

[wythersake]

We were in the same Circle.

[ as were you, but calling attention to certain public spats isn't the most politic way to begin. ]

[libratus]

After Nevarra City?

[ Not hiding it, then. But gently surprised, his focus shifting. ]

Were you there when he was transferred?

[wythersake]

Unless I’ve terribly mixed my geography.

[ that's a 'yes' to both ]

[libratus]

[ A huffed exhale. Funny, the way everything circles round. ]

May I ask— how much do you trust him?

[wythersake]

Is there a reason that I shouldn't?

[libratus]

Not-- necessarily. [ But maybe. ]

It can be difficult to accurately assess someone who's been engaged in a one-sided pissing contest against you for as long as you've known them. I thought I ought to get a second opinion.

[wythersake]

If he hasn't punched you, it can't be going that badly.

[libratus]

Deflecting suspicion before the eventual murder attempt, perhaps.

[wythersake]

You're granting him a great deal of subtlety.

[ which isn't to say he's an idiot (far from it), or unsuited to his work (well), or that isaac trusts him (well). ]

Kostos is a prick. If that hasn't changed, what else has?

[libratus]

It's not something I am liberty to discuss.

[ ...With Isaac. Despite apparently planning to discuss it with Kostos. ]

Not yet, at least. But if I disappear, I suppose you'll know he's more than just a sour face after all.

[wythersake]

[wythersake]

[wythersake]

Is this really how every conversation is going to go?

[libratus]

—I tell you quite a few things.

[ Like, double digits. ]

[wythersake]

You didn't come to me just to have a go at him. If I'm handing you opinions, we'd both rather those were informed.

[libratus]

This is not about what I would and would not rather tell you, this is— [ Important. Which is of course the point.

Air huffs through his nose. Trying again: ]

One person can keep a secret. Two can tell who has let it loose. More than that, and you cannot be certain of anything.

[wythersake]

So you're uncertain of me,

[ — which may prove he has some sense of self-preservation after all ]

But not whatever dirt I might supply.

[libratus]

[ Well— ]

You are not the one whose discretion I feel the need to test.

[ —is the answer to a different question. Adjacent, though. ]

I don't want you to tell me anything you aren't comfortable with, Isaac. If you trust him, then you trust him. If I have good reason to think otherwise, I will tell you that.

[wythersake]

[ the trouble with — prevarication isn't the word, casuistry (no), he can't place it and that's its own irritation —

the trouble with bullshit is that they're both rather good at it, and isaac knows perfectly well when an accusation is left unaddressed. picking a fight over it only means giving in to distraction.

that doesn't mean he can refrain. ]

I've known him longer than you; you've known him longer than me. If one of us trusts the other... 

[ ilias ]

Well, maybe you can work that one out. I hear that mages get a good education.

[ the crystals don't actually make any sound when someone hangs up. ]