0021 - [Video]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Now this is...promising.

I don't expect we're able to direct calls to those of our choosing?

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[gard]

[ Much as it galls him to admit it - ]

No. [ He doesn't. ]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Interesting.

Once, quite a long time ago, you did. But you seem to have forgotten.

[gard]

[ Gard wishes he found this particularly surprising. ]

Do you mean Gard, or...? [ Or Hiziki. In which case, this 'a long time ago' thing is going to have to be investigated more fully. ]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

I mean the both of you.

[gard]

This is not the moment I would have chosen to find out about memory modification.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

I apologize for any inconvenience to your interrupted schedule.

[gard]

Not a schedule as much as it is the knowledge that if this transmission is intercepted, my life is going to become very interesting very quickly.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Then let us hope it doesn't become intercepted.

Where are you, right now?

[gard]

Let's keep that one under wraps.

Suffice to say, it's a tense situation, and concealment is the most ideal option for me at the moment.

Tell me about you.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Are you being hunted?

What do you wish to know?

[gard]

The nature of our acquaintance, for starters.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

You were once my warden. And I, your inmate.

[gard]

Tell me this isn't a prelude to a kind of elaborate revenge.

[ That would really really suck. ]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

I have no ill feelings towards you, Gard. You may relax. Even if I wished to harm you, I couldn't.

[gard]

That's really not that reassuring.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Isn't it?

For whatever it matters, I did like you better than my current warden.

[gard]

...Then I probably liked you too.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

I'd like to think so.

[gard]

I don't think I'm going to be wardening anywhere any time soon.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

A shame. But you were skilled, while you were in my company.

Are you in trouble?

[gard]

[ Slightly strangled noise. ]

You could say that.

You could also say, for example, that I just murdered a political figure in full view of a few hundred actually present and a few billion watching the broadcast.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Inspiring.

I approve.

[gard]

Thank you, Scorpius. Your words bring lightness to my heart.

[ n o p e ]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

Your aloofness doesn't fool me, Gard.

[gard]

I'm terrified.

Happy now?