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It doesn't matter that much now. He told me he's too busy with other stuff to torture the information out of me, which, brilliant thing to hear. Anyway. He doesn't want me having my job, and doesn't like me, and all that. Not much he can do about it now, though.

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inkindled

[What the--]

So he's got it out for you like he wants you to be sacked, not that he wants you to be--tortured and dead and all? Or does he want both? But he's busy--

[Is he going to have to start torturing information out of people? Or doing the paperwork to free Flint up to do some torturing?]

That's mental. He had to have been joking, or something. And you didn't know. 'Cause no one would say that seriously, right.

Edited (picky word choices) Date: 2019-10-28 09:17 pm (UTC)

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rathercommon

Have you met him? He's a bit mental, isn't he.

[ A bit of a sigh. ]

Anyway, I don't know. Not for sure. Lots of people have told me.I'm being paranoid, but those are also the sorts of people who've - Who don't have the sorts of experience that you and I do. I know he can turn on you, and I expect he'll be all right to you, but just...don't trust him too much. Yeah?

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inkindled

[He hesitates, wavering--then, slowly--]

Yeah. I mean... yeah. S'ppose I'll just see, then. What didn't you tell him?

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rathercommon

[ Without hesitation: ]

The names of people I know who are connected to the slave resistance in Tevinter.

From:

inkindled

Oh, shit.

[--Which he doesn't mean to say aloud, but.]

Er, that's... I mean, so, why'd he want to know that?

From:

rathercommon

Because it'd be useful. 'Cause, you know, they ought to be made of use.

From:

inkindled

[Starting now toward bewilderment, or at least confusion, Matthias stares at the wall opposite.]

But... they would be, right? Like to the Inquisition. Riftwatch. 'Cause they're already in there--in Tevinter.

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rathercommon

[ The frown is audible in her voice. ]

You were part of the mage rebellion, yeah? You find out that some of the people you fought with are in hiding in Minrathous. Do you feed Flint their names and locations so that he can find them and make them fight for him? Of course not. It's not their obligation to be useful to us. It's their obligation to fight for their freedom.

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inkindled

Yeah, of course I was, and I wouldn't-- I mean, yeah. No. But it could work both ways, right? For their favor, and for our favor. They could use the help, I'd reckon, whereas the mages--

It's not that they wouldn't want help. But they've got a good start. So they don't need it as badly. Whereas slaves in Tevinter, that's like... low. They haven't got much. We didn't either, when we left the Circles, but that was years ago, and we're doing loads better now.

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rathercommon

And when you were low and powerless. Would you want some - some charismatic speech-maker who knows just what to say to win your trust, but who doesn't have your best interests at heart - Would you want him talking to your people? Convincing them to die for his cause?

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inkindled

Well--no. Yeah. I reckon not. D'you really think that about him?

From:

rathercommon

[ Maybe. Maybe. She doesn't know. ]

Yeah. I do.

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inkindled

[Hm. Matthias thinks on that a moment. Not very long, of course; it's not his way to think very long.]

I'll watch out then, won't I. And make sure there's nothing like that about. 'Cause if I'm his assistant, that means I can keep an eye on everything, right? And do the work.