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Communications Officer Doug Eiffel ([personal profile] littletonoidea) wrote2022-03-02 01:29 am
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"This is the audio log of Communications Officer Doug Eiffel of the-- previously of the U.S.S Hephaestus, leave a message and I'll see if I can bear to drag myself away from whatever utterly engaging task I must be doing to not notice my comms--"

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[personal profile] deuceoftears 2022-07-01 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Jedao also does not let go. His eyes don't get any less intense, but something that was carefully restrained in his voice, reserving judgement, gets fractionally gentler.

"Okay. If it isn't in the file, ask the admiral for a current status briefing. Will you do that?"
Edited 2022-07-01 14:15 (UTC)
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[personal profile] deuceoftears 2022-07-01 02:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Ask. Let me know what he says."

The more formal phrasing Report back to me itches behind his teeth, which is about when Jedao realizes he's flying blind on Jedao One's instincts, like he used to when addressing his Kel. He doesn't need those instincts to know that dropping the touch like it burns will undercut his - not authority, what authority - influence? Whatever the fuck he is doing.

He drops his hand smoothly, takes a few steps away, then leans against once of the bulky arcade frames. "Confirmation is better, when it comes to things like this. I would think you'd be tired of him springing shit on you."
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[personal profile] deuceoftears 2022-07-01 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Jedao tilts his head, watching Eiffel stammer. His voice is still quiet.

"Do you actually believe that, or is it an excuse not to dig because you're scared to destabilize what appears, on the surface, to be a truce?"
Edited 2022-07-01 15:47 (UTC)
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[personal profile] deuceoftears 2022-07-01 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"But you are more afraid he'll stop talking to you than that he'll hurt someone else," Jedao muses.

It's not an accusation. Just an evaluation.
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[personal profile] deuceoftears 2022-07-01 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does it? He seems like a man capable of multitasking. Especially if you're assuming he isn't."
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[personal profile] deuceoftears 2022-07-04 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Jedao is quiet, for a little while, level, making sure Eiffel has said his whole piece.

"I get it," he says quietly. "I've been -" A brief, hiccoughing little laugh. "I don't know how to express just how utterly I've been outclassed, by someone Elias could be if he had another eight centuries to work on it. I've had to smile and swallow lies and play dumb and not realize the dumb mistakes I was making and act - not dumb, exactly, he knew more about my brain than I did, but - compliant. I get that that's a strategy."

His voice is level and low, but he has to force himself to relax his white-knuckled grip on the arcade chassis behind him.

"But you have other resources, and you're not using them. I don't know if that's because you're so used to this approach that you genuinely haven't noticed, or because you're so used to this approach that you're worried doing anything else on the side will blow up in your face, or if you don't care what happens to other inmates while you're working your angle, or if you do care but it's overwhelming so you're convincing yourself the risk doesn't exist, or what. I am trying to find out. I want you to help me understand."
Edited 2022-07-04 16:22 (UTC)