limacharlie | Day 68: [NIGHTRUNNER CHANNEL]

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Day 68: [NIGHTRUNNER CHANNEL]

If you haven’t been approached already, I’m letting you know now: we’ve got a couple of people asking about being let on the nightrunners. I told them they’d need to convince you, not me. You know what we do, you know the risks, and you know what I ask for — if they come to you, let me know how they do.

Also, I’ve banned Strange from going out on preliminary scouting or any mission with a more than average chance of running into the fae. Unless I or the Ringmaster specifically say otherwise, that stays. He can whine about it as much as he wants, but if you see him violating that order, I want you to tell me that too.

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Then trust that I’m making the right call.

[ A pause, and then— ]

I haven’t made a lot of those, lately. But there are things that matter to me.

[ a pause, before Strange weakly jokes, ] It's you saying things like that which made me think you were in love with me.

[ because obviously the thing that matters is Strange himself. c: the secret to talking Strange down from an anger ledge: keep buttering his friggen ego

and oh shit, he said that on the nightrunner channel, didn't he. ]

[he sure did]

Wait... you thought what??

The long and short of it is that Lambert's rubbish at communication.

[ the chance to be a shit is raising Strange's mood from 'I will fight everybody in this network post' to 'okay, I'll just fight like half the people in this network post' ]

Well, I knew that much.

And Strange is rubbish at observation.

That too.

[ well, strange is one of those things, but admittedly not the one lambert was thinking of when he said that, but he’ll take it.

he will not, however, take that second part without comment! ]

Don’t make this weird!

You already made this weird!

[ lambert started this and strange is 100% going down with that ship. ]

You’re making it weirder!

[Syrlya makes some sort of choking noise.]

I am not in love with Strange!

I did not say you were!

[ you brought this on yourself, dragon man ]

He made certain to wait until I was high out of my mind before asking me what I thought about men loving men. And he was needlessly standoffish when I tried to set him up with someone at the Olympics. And finally, once his contract is over, he's coming to England for me.

[ well, for Strange and Childermass. ]

You already know the reason for all of that!

[ Reasons he’s not going to say here, because he is definitely conscious of this being on the nightrunner channel. ]

I'll have the servants clean out the guest room before you arrive, darling.

[ Strange has found a way to take his revenge. ]

Edited 2018-06-15 21:29 (UTC)

[ DISGUSTED NOISE ]

Why would you care about loving men? [Why would Lambert?? Why does that part matter.

He can't comment on the rest being actual evidence, mostly because he doesn't want to get dragged into a lover's quarrel on top of all this drama.]

I don't. [ Strange is a hopeless romantic who's gung ho for any sort of love. ] But certain factions of England are less liberal than I am. I suspect Childermass mentioned that to him and he wanted to ask me without arousing my suspicion.

I'm not certain I follow the problem, but I will take your word on it.

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kingsroads - 2018-06-15 22:23 (UTC) - Expand

Wait, Childermass?

[Cue all the gears in his head turning.]

Damn it! It was Childermass all this time!?

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whattaprick - 2018-06-18 02:14 (UTC) - Expand

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dressedtothe - 2018-06-18 02:18 (UTC) - Expand

...

Wow. When you put it like that, it does sound conclusive.

[And Rita knows damn well why it's not. But, what the hell, this is actually pretty amusing.]

[ Strange doesn't know if Rita knows or doesn't know about Lambert and Childermass. but what he does know is that this is probably making Lambert uncomfortable and if he's going to be all stupid keeping secrets, then he can DEAL WITH THIS. ]

He even kissed me while you and Syrlya were dealing with Ignatius.

[ Oh you fucking— ]

When we get to England, I’m telling Arabella about all the people you’ve kissed.

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