✖ 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.

Comments

[priscilla]

he is a butler! Yes. he won that melee battle, too. With spoons? I think.

hes very fond of cats. actually, i think he's spoiling teresa and irene.

the cats, not the warriors!

meanwhile, I don't think he's very fond of the foxes. or the wolf. or the rabbits or the bird or the horse!

[silverking]

Ah, yes. Him. I should make a point to speak with him at some point.

You have a lot of pets nowadays.

[priscilla]

HES INTERESTING.

i mean, if you like butlers.

which i do.

i was going to stop getting pets after the bird, but then arthur was threatening to eat the rabbits so i adopted them.

[silverking]

If you could call butlers interesting, then perhaps he is. Although, I would not doubt it given his accomplishments so far.

All it took for you to adopt them was the threat of being eaten? Then why haven't you taken to adopting people?

[priscilla]

[A small pause, and then...]

i have.

[silverking]

It's not quite the same, is it?

[You can't protect them all the time. In other words, it is only a whim that spares them from Isley's appetite, or Rigaldo's.]

[priscilla]

there isnt enough room in the headquarters.

[Another pause. A long one!]

i have a way of thinking about it. and about you.

[silverking]

What way is that?

[priscilla]

you will do what you do, because it is what you do. even if i tried to stop you, i couldnt. no one could.

and even if they could, they would need to kill you to stop you, really. but then what? you would just come back and be in the same place, except angry, too. and it would not really save anyone. because more people would probably be lost in trying to defeat you than would be saved by stopping you from eating for the few days or weeks that you would be gone.

it is pointless to oppose it. it cannot be opposed.

and then you can ask this: even so, how can i, that is me, be with someone who would do these things, even if they cannot be stopped?

and i would say: with me or without me, it is still who and what you are. would it do anyone any good if i left?

[silverking]

It wouldn't do them any good at all.

[priscilla]

you always said you held back for me.

[silverking]

I do.

That hasn't changed. For the most part, at least.

[priscilla]

i know.

[...pause pause.]

that doesnt mean i like it!

but i remember the hunger. it never stopped. ever.

[silverking]

That isn't quite true.

[priscilla]

it isnt?

[silverking]

When I lost my life the hunger stopped.

And in Dismas it is...bearable.

[priscilla]

o! i never went there while i was the way i was at home.

and i dont want to think about the other thing.

but when i first came to anatole i went into dismas and got thirsty and grabbed a drink but it was some kind of alcohol so i got a little drunk.

it was kind of embarrassing.

[silverking]

We should go together sometime.

[priscilla]

really?

all right!

[A pause, and then...]

ah, i need to send the document. thing. which is why i wrote to begin with!

[Shh. Attached file. It's here.]

[silverking]

If you're not in any hurry for it to be looked over, perhaps you will come over this evening? I can read the document come morning.

[priscilla]

i would love to.

the document can wait until morning!

[silverking]

I'll be waiting for you.

[He disconnects.]