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]

[ Slight fumbling sound. Then an unfamiliar language, but it sounds like it's probably cursing. ]

[keeps_a_cool_head]

[A slight, curious head tilt]

Who's there?

Identify yourself.

[gard]

Whose signal is this?

[keeps_a_cool_head]

This is Scorpius.

Now identify yourself.

[gard]

[ He casts his mind back, but can't remember anyone on the guest list for the ceremony, or in the security preparations, named Scorpius. ]

If you meant to call someone, I think it probably wasn't me.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

You might be surprised.

Is this Hiziki Gard?

Your voice is...quite distinctive.

[gard]

Good, that's wonderful.

This is not a good time.

[keeps_a_cool_head]

I would implore you to stay a moment longer.

Do you know who I am?

[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.