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I gotta pull my weight.
This would work better if you weren't also annoyingly aware of how handsome you are.
This would work better if you weren't also annoyingly aware of how handsome you are.
Ah, my evil plan to get better free coffee worked.
No.
No.
Maybe I'm playing a very, very long game.
No, let me try again. I'll be more thorough this time.
No, let me try again. I'll be more thorough this time.
Oh, obviously. I'm sure my office holds no other attractions.
Crysta and Parson have learned to detect my illusions; they just had to get inventive with their powers to do it. You've seen my crow illusion before. Its caws are based on hours upon hours of crow videos, filtered through my memory. Do the illusory caws say anything to you, or do they not carry any inherent meaning?
Crysta and Parson have learned to detect my illusions; they just had to get inventive with their powers to do it. You've seen my crow illusion before. Its caws are based on hours upon hours of crow videos, filtered through my memory. Do the illusory caws say anything to you, or do they not carry any inherent meaning?
The view is pretty nice.
They actually just say "the ice-skating mongoose visits Japan in the winter" over and over again.
They actually just say "the ice-skating mongoose visits Japan in the winter" over and over again.
[A dark grey felt tote, holding two bottles of wine: a 2011 Massolino Barolo Riserva Vigna Rionda, and a 2020 Pescevino Bianco. (Only one of these is a nice bottle of wine, and the other is a joke.) Pinned to the bag is a folded note in Enoch's careful handwriting:]
For you, I've selected an incredibly nice Barolo Nebbiolo. At first glance, it seems light, even frivolous. Not the sort of wine people take seriously based just on looks. But a taste reveals that it is startlingly opinionated, stubborn and lingering even after you've set it down, and with a depth and complexity that resists being fully deciphered after only a few sips. Very dry, very understated, very refreshing. In the first few years, this vintage is both intriguing and almost intolerable, but given some time to develop, it mellows into something with considerable longevity. Now is an excellent time for this bottle. But it will hold, if you're not sure you want to open it yet.[The bottom edge of the paper is a little too close to the last line, as though there was something else written after that, then torn off upon second thought.]
The Pescevino is ... drinkable. But I personally find it charming.
I have an urgent problem that I need your help with.
Edited (sorry for backtagging you this is the speed my brain works at now) 2023-11-30 03:33 (UTC)
Monday after a holiday weekend, no less. Silly of me to even ask.
I'm in my apartment.
I'm in my apartment.
You don't enjoy having free run of the place?
Too much sarcasm. I could get into plenty of trouble in here. [...] Any time I leave Poet alone for longer than a day I always expect to come back to some kind of elaborate and evil Rube Goldberg machine. But all I actually found was a very nice gift on my doorstep.
Too much sarcasm. I could get into plenty of trouble in here. [...] Any time I leave Poet alone for longer than a day I always expect to come back to some kind of elaborate and evil Rube Goldberg machine. But all I actually found was a very nice gift on my doorstep.
Ah. No subjects for observation. That is a problem.
I'll keep that in mind with Christmas coming up.
I'll keep that in mind with Christmas coming up.
I've already had to adjust my list of the most useless employees at Enodia. Turns out some people's contributions to the ambiance can't be properly measured until they're gone.
Before you go to any great lengths, you should know that one bottle cost me less than twenty dollars and the other one didn't cost me anything at all, so I've technically avoided your requirements for a nice gift.
Before you go to any great lengths, you should know that one bottle cost me less than twenty dollars and the other one didn't cost me anything at all, so I've technically avoided your requirements for a nice gift.
Did you miss Cairo?
Technically. But you got me exactly what I wanted and you were thrifty about it, which is the most attractive quality of all.
Technically. But you got me exactly what I wanted and you were thrifty about it, which is the most attractive quality of all.
He of the green-stained fingers and clouds of vape fumes? Absolutely not. But I did find myself missing Spirit, just a little bit. You can always foretell their presence by the waves of annoyance that ripple through a crowd, like a forest wildfire. Few people make that kind of impact on the world.
Wow. You like that I committed a crime for you.
Wow. You like that I committed a crime for you.
Well your secret is safe with me.
I'm not trying to encourage it, but yeah.
I'm not trying to encourage it, but yeah.
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