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Byerly Vlad Rutyer ([personal profile] bouchonne) wrote2020-10-03 12:55 pm
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contact part deux

if this were modern times byerly would probably make you listen to total eclipse of the heart before you were able to leave a message
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[personal profile] heirring 2022-08-21 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't tell them anything at all, for starters.

But if I were for some reason obligated to say something, I might write a note along the lines of 'Very minor magical talent, wholly unremarkable.' You cannot say 'Magical talent, unspecified'! The reader will imagine all sorts of dramatic things! And when it goes in combination with what you have already written and sent of me—that I'm highly clever and have a keen eye for design—

[Are those the words he'd used? Close enough.]

—then I will seem highly formidable indeed. I can't imagine your masters are in the business of letting formidable persons simply do as they please. Particularly not once the war has ended.
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[personal profile] heirring 2022-08-27 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Then why bother to report on it at all? The magic, or indeed any facet of my person whatsoever?
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[personal profile] heirring 2022-08-28 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Then why swear you to a duty that doesn't matter?
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[personal profile] heirring 2022-08-28 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Yet here you are attempting to assure me of just that! That you are knowledgeable in the weight of these things. Why should I trust your assessment if you haven't practiced it?
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[personal profile] heirring 2022-08-28 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
I am aware it is complicated! It is my life and well being, Mister Rutyer!
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[personal profile] heirring 2022-08-28 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
Well I dislike the whole prospect, and would prefer it if you said nothing about the whole affair. Though obviously I can't very well stop you.
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[personal profile] heirring 2022-09-12 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose you could have, yes.

[It doesn't sound particularly grateful; rather, it is exactly as prim and sniffing as Byerly's justification had been petty. Someone (not her!) might suggest the phrase 'two of a kind.' Presumably that someone would also find themselves being vigorously shouted down.]

Now we will both just have to make due with the truth. In any case, I suppose it will make little difference in the immediate future.