Credit where credit's due: the kid's not bad. Speaking as someone well versed in telling people they're being ridiculous in the hopes that they might start to believe it, it's the kind of tactic that actually works nine times out of ten. It's just a shame that this is number ten, and that the boy's trying to out-maneuver a master wordsmith with no qualms about being a real pain in the backside.
"I wonder who Commander Coupe or that Shivana fellow with the Chantry Relations project will believe when I tell them.l? Some uppity mage who thinks he's too good for a little manual labor, or a poor defenseless young man with burned hands and a withered arm? Do you know, I heard Shivana was blind up until very recently--"
Flinging his fleshy arm about his neck like a scarf, Bartimaeus whirls around to leave on his mission to become a Grade A tattletale.
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Credit where credit's due: the kid's not bad. Speaking as someone well versed in telling people they're being ridiculous in the hopes that they might start to believe it, it's the kind of tactic that actually works nine times out of ten. It's just a shame that this is number ten, and that the boy's trying to out-maneuver a master wordsmith with no qualms about being a real pain in the backside.
"I wonder who Commander Coupe or that Shivana fellow with the Chantry Relations project will believe when I tell them.l? Some uppity mage who thinks he's too good for a little manual labor, or a poor defenseless young man with burned hands and a withered arm? Do you know, I heard Shivana was blind up until very recently--"
Flinging his fleshy arm about his neck like a scarf, Bartimaeus whirls around to leave on his mission to become a Grade A tattletale.