"Ok, before we get deep into this I wasn't actually on track to be a therapist I was considering being a scientist and took a nice off ramp through criminal psych.There are also as many as several reasons why a normal psych would say I have conflicts of interest. But I'm your friend and I can be your friend with a psych degree.
Now tell me about your father."
"Couldn't resist. We will need to cover your relationship as a whole, but first let's go over recent events."
"There are at least 3 different things in play here 2 of which are important and 1 of which is real. The conversation you feel like you had, the conversation your dad thinks you had, and the actual words, and facial expressions, psychic overlays etc., that literally actually happened."
"I'm going to be taking notes with my black box, it's typically considered bad practice to directly show those to the patient. But I don't know how much you actually control it. I'm assuming it's semi-autonomous, like breathing?"
"Ok, so in reverse chronological order let's go over what happened. I'm hoping to get at the ground truth, but sorting that out is my job. Just tell me what you remember as best you can."
"I got bored so cleaned up a bit and rearranged your books by alphabetical order."
I need to put them back in genre grouping, and detune her guitar next time I'm in Quebec.
"Before that I was at the IGA where Marie the cashier requested I convey that your presence is desired in Sherbrooke and implicitly at her new band's upcoming premiere.
Also I brought you some booshing, untaxed cigarettes and some coffee crisps."
"I can go anyway if Quebec fits in the schedule. Let's continue working backwards from IGA."
"I had to be safe the first time, but obviously using English gives you emotional distance. That's part of why you are speaking it now even though my French *comprehension* is pretty good.
Now you were explaining how your father left."
"I closed the summons. It was French but your comprehension is *moderate*, so I extinguished the cig I used to make the smoke circle and said something like:
The flame of my summons is extinguished.
Our business is complete.
I have received the news I sought.
You have received the fruits of the mortal world.
As you came in peace take your payment and go in peace.
The way is open."
Tabernacle saying her vibe casting is going to get someone killed or worse is like saying that raising the tobacco duty is going to reduce net revenue and lead to gang wars.
I want to peel her mind apart like an onion almost as much as I want to show her what it's like to be the one in the wood chipper.
"That is creepy as and I'll steal your maid Jax if you try. I'm not reading your mind right now I just know you well enough to guess what that extra deep puff means."
"I hate you too tutz, but let's save the flirting and get back to the ritual and its circumstances."
"He had said I need a shrink, and I think he might be right but he also wasn't taking me seriously in the convo or giving me space when I asked. So when he kept pushing instead of doing anything reasonable I snapped a little."
"You are in Naarm talking about something that happened in Sherbrooke you don't need to do any more recursion.
Do you want a coffee break I think Jethro's is open or at least will be soon."
"Don't know, I'm banned from that Jethro's stuff, and haven't talked to girllitch since I had to clean up your mess after the badger incident."
"The one with you that needed me to clean it up better, cause I only cleaned up one."
Chase can you tell us if girllitch is still pupeting the empiricists and/or mad at Lilith?
Things that happened 'in a sense' while they got coffee here.
Thread resumes when they get back.
"So you implied you had an attack, which I won't press on except to confirm it. Other than that what did your dad say to get you info dumping?"
"He acted like he didn't know what Amok Time is, but still cared enough about Star Trek to ask.
Ok fine I brought up pon farr first.
Because he brought up the breeding confluence."
Note to self: get a Kirk cosplay and practice with that de classe Vulcan weapon before the next breeding confluence.
"Mémère, and why I hate her. We were both bitching about her and acted surprised when I said I know he loves her despite everything, but I don't.
So I told him that if he looks past the obvious he should see the even more obvious and he landed on the obvious."
"When you say the even more obvious do you mean the thing where you didn't know that side of the family or the truth about them until your were 16 and that she didn't do any of the things a human Westerner would have done if they actually wanted to connect with a long lost relative?"
Do not say read the sequences, Ellen. You can do this, you can wait until the end to comment.
"Ok" *yawn* "let me have some more coffee."
"Ok yeah so when you said you were both bitching about big mama chimpken can you do some details?"
"He corrected me about saying 'sin', and I defended park creole and said that he sounded like her.
He started talking about how much she nags him, and I said that of course she does.
Maman's are just like that."
"I don't remember, but I think just you.
I'm almost back to the start, he told me that the sin caught someone near one of the earthholes with a gun and orders to kill the youngest son of our family."
"Before that, basically just the summoning. And telling him to wait till we got home to smoke so he didn't give the park pigeons bad ideas."
"I think your second wind might be wearing off your body language is getting weird"
"Maudite, Ellen I agreed to wait on arguing if you are normally crazy, but you have been up for over a day and are having an episode. Go to bed."
"You're just scared to hear how I solved the case of how you fucked up everything this time you stupid dickhead."
Chat, Order 104, Section C Ellen is no longer our detective until further notice.
[anti coolsville integrity check data, meta data, and secrecy level. Chat level clearance required. Chat level clearance confirmed. Open message block.]
If you are doing a timeline integrity check you presumably have context, so I will address panicked me.
As of 2023-05-05 Pathfinder is actually fiction not Myth.
The pantheons in it draw from pre-existing sources as detailed in appendix paziocannon12 [sic] but are generally not real.
There are some immortals doing bits,
Regardless, even if they become real Aroden specifically is not sending you coded messages about ongoing cases for as many as several reasons, and even if he was he would do it via Ribbon using the designated Prophecy Protocols.
Not the bubble patterns in your coffee or whatever it is this time.
Go to bed unless you need to take you meds first, or confirm contradicting orders from OPs.
Then do a blood panel when you wake up, rezing may have fucked your hormones and/or other med levels.
Oh so when you don't want to be reminded of work but when I.
We're going to end up like those prisoners who just say the numbers for jokes.
BESM. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.
"À la claire fontaine,
M’en allant promener,
J’ai trouvé l’eau si belle
Que je m’y suis baigné.
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime,
Jamais je ne t’oublierai.
Sous les feuilles d’un chêne,
Je me suis fait sécher.
Sur la plus haute branche,
Le rossignol chantait.
Il y a longtemps que je t’aime,
Jamais je ne t’oublierai."
