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Richard Dickerson ([personal profile] nonvenomous) wrote 2022-07-20 04:27 am (UTC)

Silas is away for ten minutes. Maybe fifteen.

A careworn blanket is cast rakish around his shoulders when he returns. It goes well with his hat, the grubby vacation bristle of his beard, the crystal held loose in his upturned palm for him to ask aloud:

“Would you like me to pursue her?”

And to receive an answer in Scoutmaster Yseult’s voice:

”What plan did the two of you make when she left?”

The look he cuts to Fitcher is expectant on the order of a cat left waiting outside of a glass door overnight with the unspoken promise that it intends to claw every piece of furniture it can reach the instant it’s let inside.

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