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[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. ]