That is curious, considering I'm already aware of of everything you know.
[About him, he means, but making himself seem omniscient has always been useful.
Fortunately for Michael Ralston, that's only a bit of propaganda, bolstered by spies—and that lack of omniscience would give the man a head start, were he looking for a good hiding place. Which he should be, and likely isn't. Because he thinks he's clever.
That Alina thinks she's very clever, too, is markedly less insulting—mitigated, at the very least, by territorial impulse. Even the vehicle of their discussion is eclipsed by it. For a moment he just stares at her.]
What did you tell him?
[It's too bad she can't see into him; she might be satisfied by the anger that's begun to seep up from that seething black place beneath his humanity. Or perhaps not that horrible thing itself, but that she summoned it.]
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[About him, he means, but making himself seem omniscient has always been useful.
Fortunately for Michael Ralston, that's only a bit of propaganda, bolstered by spies—and that lack of omniscience would give the man a head start, were he looking for a good hiding place. Which he should be, and likely isn't. Because he thinks he's clever.
That Alina thinks she's very clever, too, is markedly less insulting—mitigated, at the very least, by territorial impulse. Even the vehicle of their discussion is eclipsed by it. For a moment he just stares at her.]
What did you tell him?
[It's too bad she can't see into him; she might be satisfied by the anger that's begun to seep up from that seething black place beneath his humanity. Or perhaps not that horrible thing itself, but that she summoned it.]