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text; where do we keep the lost and found around this place anyway? (forward dated to late 7/13)

Quick question, I know people are busy and there's shady stuff going down, but:

Is anyone really good at finding missing things? Or people? I'm losing a little of my mind over here, but that's not what I need found!

( With how Martin's still MIA she sort of suspects... not. )

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[It's the one time that his skills actually come in handy; cooking and cleaning. And though it's also the one thing that he gets praised for without mockery, it's also mostly a useless thing to be handy with back home. At the Nightray house, there's no need for him to lift a finger with the number of maids and butlers that tend to the family. His own apartment in the capital city of Reveil is modest, small, and on a middle floor in the middle of the chaos that accompanies a city that large. It's easy to keep tidy when he's actually there. And even Pandora, a mismatch of servants from all levels of noble houses, stays running under its own power.

Pandora needs soldiers who don't mind bloodying their hands. They don't need people knitting scarves and preparing cupcakes.]

Not exactly. I've been a servant as long as I can remember, so it came naturally. But I learned to bake because -

[He hesitates, sits up a little straighter. This is a Very Important Story.]

Um, it was mostly because of Break.

but you know he wouldn't just disappear without saying anything.
if he didn't have a good reason.

That should be fine. Let me ask the Scarab what he can use.

[He goes ahead and just starts typing what the Scarab recites to him:]

Anything with saliva on it like toothpicks or cigarettes, any hats that might have hair or dandruff, used tissues or cond ew

[Scarab, no.]

Let's try for hair.

I can take both. And I do know how to open attachments.

When you say missing, are you certain they haven't left the premises entirely? I understand that is something that happens fairly often here.

Thank you. I think I will. As for the missions... those do sound interesting. Have you been on many yourself?

i don t think i ve actually heard of any of those people before but i ll definitely keep an eye out for them

sophie and kaneis have been here a while
maybe they d know something

Edited 2013-07-15 01:41 (UTC)

That works out. I'll come see you soon?

Sure, I guess. I take it you want me to deliver it to him instead of to you?

( Now there's a story. She focuses all of her attention on Gilbert, eyes widening. )

For Break? Why's that?

( The love-hate depedanceship that wasn't is an ongoing source of confusion and fascination for Collette. She tucks a stray bit of hair behind her ear, waiting for Gilbert's response. Or how much of one she'll get out of him at the moment, as they sit at the dinner table with different intent than what it'd been laid out for. )

When people leave that way, there's a signature, or more a lack of that, on the network. Sollux is double checking for me. Anyway, I've sent you the attachment!

( Which she has, including two names:

Martin Darkov, and Caesar Silverberg. Image files are included because GUESS WHAT SHE likes to have fun with her tablet that's what!!! )

The last time he did I didn't notice and it wasn't any good that he'd been gone, it was -- anyway, I don't want that to be the case again? So yeah. He wouldn't say anything unless there was a good reason.

Many of the ones we all had to go on! None of the small ones, they haven't pulled me aside to give me the private mission talk yet.

I can send you images, too, I know a name is kind of hard to use in situations like this. Um... yeah, totally! If they've met either of them they might know, or have heard the names in passing

[He glances down at the table, hands fidgeting in his lap as he recalls that day so many years ago.]

When I'd first started working for Pandora, I was about sixteen. I'd noticed around that time that Break, who acted as my superior, was looking too pale and skinny. I asked his mistress about his health and - ah...

[He'll just skip the story that Lady Sharon told him and cut right to the end. It's too terrifying to tell at the dinner table!]

Well, I learned then that even though his diet is poor, but he can usually eat sweets with no trouble. I borrowed Pandora's kitchen and practiced a while before I was finally able to produce something that he'd accept. It's an embarrassing reason, but there's no doubt that it was a huge help to me.

Just recently, but it's recent and -- he's supposed to have shown up by now, but he hasn't, and he's not responding to anything. I mean the guy's lazy, but he's not the kind who doesn't do what he said he'd do. He'll complain a lot, but he's dependable, you know? I mean I know you know. But you know what I mean when I say that?

I know. I'm guessing you already checked the network for him and the Martin guy.

What was he doing before he disappeared?

( Superior, Pandora, a mistress... Collette listens with fascination. She's fairly sure by the end of it that Pandora might not be a person, and that Break is probably an untreated diabetic if his world follows any logic like what she knows. She wonders when and how he went blind... but that's all incidental. )

You really care about him a lot, too, don't you?

( Not that she so much doubted this... but hearing about Gilbert when he'd been her age is interesting. People don't talk so much about their teenage years around her. She finds it funny, considering how much more willing they were to say do or don't do this thing, but never really showing some of how they grew and learned -- like a certain lack of relatability. Weird! Maybe adults just wanted to forget they were ever a teenager in the first place. )

What's Pandora? Does Oz work for Pandora too? How long had Break been there before you met him?

Martiin wa2 a giirl??
but yeah ok ii know who you mean ii 2poke two them before, 2ome 2eriiou2ly fucked up iin the pan a22hole.
ok ii'll look for cae2ar.

[Looking. Looking...]

cae2ar'2 ii2 2tiill actiive but not re2pon2iive.
meaniing not gone.
but po22iibly not aliive eiither.

( She closes her eyes, smiling and concentrating on breathing. Okay... okay, so she was right, he hadn't been transported home. Yet.

But the other part is what worries her. )

Thank you, Sollux! And yeah, that person is -- actually, the one using Martin's tablet (Martin is a boy!) is being controlled by a parasite, it's really gross. Koltira's working on solving how to take care of that. So Caesar's -- still missing, but not back home kind of missing. That's good to know! It gives a kind of direction, at least.

Sollux just double checked for me. He's super good with computers, so when he says they're still on network, they're still there. Uh, whatever he usually does? Napping, reading, complaining? I don't know, we weren't supposed to meet up until earlier today.

Do you deliver smacks to the back of the head?

Yes! I'm in 403 again, and the door will be open!

oh.
para2iite2.
u2ually the only cure for tho2e ii2 death.

well.
ii can't track hii2 comm 2iignal.
whiich mean2 he'2 al2o not on the radar at all.
a2 iin hii2 comm ii2n't on hii2 body or iin the morgue or hii2 2iignal ii2 beiing blocked.
meaniing iit'2 liike 75% liikely he'2 not dead.
the other 25 iimpliie2 he wa2 captured 2omehow by the UE and they 2hut the comm.
but ii mean come on how liikely ii2 that.

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WHOOPS I HOPE THIS IS RIGHT caesar was just on a mission right.

you are 110% correct, and this is perfect!

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