In which there are unpleasant conversations

[seventhsong]

Who: Lorelei seventhsong, Jade Curtiss sarcasmancer
What: Tending to a delayed conversation.
Where: Floor 89.
When: December 13th, Evening
Warnings: The Tower and Jade are involved. PG-13ish?



When Lorelei found a message from Jade about his decision to ask again why he wanted the things he did, the people he did - it seemed appropriate to find somewhere to speak where interruption was unlikely, or eavesdroppers for that matter. Lorelei knew where his isofons were and keeping them out of his head was an easy matter. Finding a location others might not wander into.. harder.

The hotel is selected simply due to being able to reserve a room. Paying the price had taken most of a day in attempting to beat down a strange monster in the pyramids and retrieve its still-beating heart but once the price was paid he had a room to himself for the night. It would have to do. And it gave him some time to mend the damage the monstrosity had done, carefully knitting back together bloody wounds and burns. He'll deal with his clothing later.

It's just a matter of waiting, then. The room thankfully had chairs and a small table as well as a bed, so there wouldn't be an issue of the Colonel finding somewhere to sit. Dinner is even provided! ...So what if it's meal bars it's still food, and that's something. And Lorelei was nice enough to even save the little chocolates left on the pillow so there's dessert afterwards.

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[seventhsong]

There is a small shrug from the crimson cheagle. "I don't know exactly. I have heard of people writing the various administration letters, it's possible the active one could just pass on the note." But he sounds a bit dubious. If any would at all that'd be Zo handing it to other people, and he's still a ways off. "They do. Ruana was before Zo, and Riki before her, so we should as of the next month be dealing with Riki again." Lorelei was fairly sure unless something went horribly wrong that this was so, and since horrible things did seem to happen with relative frequency.. "The months here are strangely short, and they only have twelve of them. Every thirty days they swap to a new one, and a new administrator." It's important to know; Jason won't be there for another fifty days. He wasn't even precisely sure how this calendar would line up against a proper one.

Jason was worse. Ruana hurt you because she was flippin' crazy. Jason did it on purpose, with calculated deliberation. Lorelei came to that conclusion after a good month and a half of working it out. "Be careful."

Jade would do as he pleased. Lorelei could offer caution anyway. He wasn't going to directly interact with any of them if he could avoid it!

Set down on the table, he looks around briefly before finding a comfortable place to plunk down. There's still a meal bar waiting, and the carefully saved chocolates, if Jade ever remembered they were there. If not, well, a second dinner for Lorelei. He was okay with this.

The loss of power in this place was what gave it a deadline. There isn't an immediate response, as he weighs what Asch could possibly have seen as a good outcome from giving them all an expiration date. It might have been accidental, but to willingly do it again.. "Apparently you had a more interesting conversation with him than I thought," the cheagle says slowly. There's no immediate snap reaction one way or another. "Did he mention, when speaking about how willingly he would doom us all, what benefit has arisen from such actions?"

Maybe something's come out of it beyond pain and suffering. He hasn't been here long enough to know. There's a brief shake of the head. "Destruction and construction are two sides of the same coin. I may not have to wean him off it.. just teach him to rebuild what he's ruined." But it's subdued, this. Asch could have found an outcome Lorelei didn't know about. Maybe such efforts meant there was a greater chance of escape one day. "It sounds ominous. I can agree to that. But what things sound like, and what they truly are, are sometimes different. What else leads to this?"

There is no blind acceptance one way or another. He needed more information.