✖ IC CONTACT #2

[silverking]

If you have managed to find your way here, then you must have exhausted all other methods of contact by now. My sincerest apologies, but I am a very busy man these days.

You have my attention now, so please speak your mind.

Of course, there are several ways to interpret the words we use day-to-day. I would advise you to choose yours carefully should you opt to leave a message.

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[silverking]

I am not going to ask you to get involved in this, Rigaldo. You have my permission to step away from it if you so wish. I won't hold it against you.

[silvereyedlion]

[Now you tell him.]

I'll remember that when she comes to me in the future.

Do you really intend to keep her in the dark over this?

[silverking]

We are not creatures with behavioral patterns that bow down to necessity, yet I intend to do what I think needs to be done.

[As always Isley provides a convoluted answer to a simple question.]

[Would could he leave it at that, however.]

I will speak with her when I am inclined. Until then there are other matters that require my attention, things less trivial in pursuit.

[A pause.]

Can you feel it, Rigaldo?

[There is tension in the air. It is thick, almost tangible. He wants you to remain alert.]

[silvereyedlion]

[...well that's something. He really should let it go un-commented on but...]

I was unaware that Priscilla had become a trivial matter in any capacity.

[He does pause though, to try and pick out what Isley's talking about. And he sounds a little more thoughtful with this part.]

I believe so.

What is it?

[silverking]

You would be unwise to pick this fight with me, Rigaldo. You know as well as I that she is not trivial, it is the argument itself that I cannot presently be bothered with.

[This is spoken evenly, as is the following.]

Something is going to happen.

[Prophetic dreams would be useful right about now. Sigh.]

I would like you to scout the outer perimeter of the city and tell me if you find anything out of the ordinary.

[silvereyedlion]

[That would be thin ice, wouldn't it?]

My days of picking fights with you are behind me, Isley. I was only pointing out how it sounded.

[He straightens up a little at being given orders.]

Of course. Out of the ordinary, whatever that might mean here... Where will you be?

[silverking]

Boldly, so it would seem. As well as unnecessarily. How it sounds is irrelevant. You should know better than that.

[But he is not going to waste his breath arguing about it anymore.]

It will not go unresolved, so do not worry. You will not be required to shoulder the burden of our domestic troubles again.

[That having been said...]

I will be reachable by Forge should you need me, as I have business around the city to see to.

...I shouldn't have to tell you to be careful.