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On the plane, Araari brings up being incompetently threatened. “Two men stopped me yesterday. From Captain Walker. They wanted me to tell you that continuing on this path is dangerous. —They meant because of them, because they will hurt you if you continue, but I suspect they are not the most dangerous thing we will encounter if we continue.”
Malta
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"Yes! You might already know it but if you don't you should."
He has two copies each of the instructions to Cast Out the Black Pharaoh and the Rituals of Self Denial, which he hands to her.
"I am agnostic as to which of you and Louise can verify that these do what they say they do but I'm guessing at least one of you can."
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"Louise. I don't have a head for magic."
"Captain Walker has decided to give Savitree spells? We didn't believe him to be a... metaphysician."
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Okay so Mordred's doing the talking on his own then. This is probably for the better to be honest but it's still a little nervewracking.
He is, outwardly, very relaxed and not scared of this interaction at all. "He's not. Or, he might be I guess, but you would know better than I would. This one is from Ayers, this one is from the Knights of Malta, Walker does not to the best of my knowledge know that either of them exist and I would prefer to keep it that way."
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(Zoe is worried that if she tries to tell their story she'll just mix up some important detail and make them sound more suspicious.)
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(Joan looks at the investigators suspiciously. They sound unpredictable. Unpredictable people wind up with people dying.)
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"Ayers is not alive but was two months ago -- he died of terminal 'trying to pursue goals while having a mouth on his stomach' -- and the Knights of Malta are under the impression that the Liar is the Devil and are fighting it."
He says that last bit at a completely normal pace while looking Mariam in the eye. Because he is not terrified of this conversation. He is relaxed and chill.
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"Technically he died of assisted suicide," Oswald offers, because obviously this is the most important thing to weigh in on for some reason.
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(Zoe, meanwhile, is pulled away from the conversation by an Egyptian-looking gentleman.
This is completely normal. Nobody thinks anything of it.)
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It's so normal and he thinks so little of it that he barely even registers it happening. In his defense there is kind of a lot to be focusing on.
"In fact I have met Walker exactly once and it was while I was breaking into Trammel's house and the only reason he didn't kill me is that I lied convincingly enough about having a dead man's switch."
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Is this supposed to make Joan feel better about her, or rather Inaaya's, life choices.
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"So anything you learned about him from me is guesswork based on what I learned about him from you, you can disregard it.
My real name is Mordred Orkney, we're not actually cult affiliated at all, we are in so far over our heads I literally drowned last week, and I would like to do actual for real information sharing where we're not lying to each other about everything."
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what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the
"...do you have. Evidence?"