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Speaker 1: have for you today.
Speaker 2: A case review does seem long overdue. Mostly the sort
Speaker 2: of thing is handled by other members of the Order,
Speaker 2: but honestly it might do me some good and maybe
Speaker 2: good to get used to. Can't help but feel overwhelmed.
Speaker 2: I've talked to more living people this year than in
Speaker 2: the last twenty. Luke, our partnership and dare I say
Speaker 2: friendship has been good for me? Undoubtedly, Sometimes you just
Speaker 2: have to connect with the young, as terrifying and confusing
Speaker 2: as that can be. Each generation and I have seen
Speaker 2: many folds and twists experience around themselves in such dizzying
Speaker 2: new ways. The intersection between culture and technology and the
Speaker 2: greater mind are as bewildering as the maze itself. The maze,
Speaker 2: Luca does put me in mind of it.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: The boys not just changed my experience, but the whole
Speaker 2: order's endeavor. Being able to capture in sound the other
Speaker 2: world voices of the dead. What a difference a single
Speaker 2: invention can make for good or ill. Philippa too, who
Speaker 2: I must admit I found a bit crass at first.
Speaker 2: Being able to glean the future does understandably lend one
Speaker 2: a great amount of confidence. But heavens, I'd never met
Speaker 2: any one who could build up a head of steam
Speaker 2: like her, not in this time around the wheel at least.
Speaker 2: But oh, how she's grown on me. No, that's not right.
Speaker 2: It's more that I understand her better and quite adore
Speaker 2: what I have found. Well, look at that I sat
Speaker 2: down to do a case review and I instead gushed
Speaker 2: about my new associates. What a sentimental old fool. We've
Speaker 2: become so m to the matter at hand. As to
Speaker 2: the case that led to the lodging of young Charles
Speaker 2: Baybridge at the Ardent, we have seen no further sign
Speaker 2: of staring eye entities, but have learned to our pain
Speaker 2: that these entities, the stalkers and hunters, are ever patient.
Speaker 2: Both Philippa and Charles are being stalked by similar entities,
Speaker 2: both hiding within the fortified walls of the Ardent, waiting
Speaker 2: for our hunters to liberate them. I hope the two
Speaker 2: of them can take comfort in a shared plight, though
Speaker 2: they don't always seem to get along. Though I'd love
Speaker 2: to have them here on hand indefinitely, as I quite
Speaker 2: enjoy them both. I'll see if I can set them
Speaker 2: at ease sooner. Um hm, I'll move Carrie Beldath onto it.
Speaker 2: The location of Samut's tomb can wait, and if anyone
Speaker 2: can find the vile observer and some arrant eyeballs. Carrie
Speaker 2: can reports on Dotty Jean Barlow have disappeared off into
Speaker 2: northern China. I'll admit this is a tough case to
Speaker 2: make adjudications. On putting Luca in danger as she did
Speaker 2: makes me want to call a hammer down on her.
Speaker 2: But as far as these things go, her actions are
Speaker 2: not the most objectionable, though despite what some Order members mutter,
Speaker 2: she is not to be commended. Our entire charter pins
Speaker 2: on limiting the harm unto humanity by the other world.
Speaker 2: For blast sake, It's why we started the whole endeavor,
Speaker 2: and we cannot sanction such violence, even if it is
Speaker 2: being targeted at unpleasant individuals and organizations. Playing favorites leads
Speaker 2: to corruption. I have seen it before. No one deserves
Speaker 2: to be cooked alive, not a dog and not a man.
Speaker 2: A cruelty does not make a wrong right. And how
Speaker 2: now I've gotten all fluffered. All that being said, we
Speaker 2: have vastly more pressing matters, so I'll not make any
Speaker 2: push on this case. I only hope I don't regret
Speaker 2: that later. Dottie, wherever you are, please stop stuffing people.
Speaker 2: Oh that blasted picture utterly elusive has damn near killed
Speaker 2: two different Theomatages lords. Perhaps we should just crammed the
Speaker 2: damn thing in the vaults, but I suppose we can
Speaker 2: leave it in rotation for another turn or two. Oh yes, ah,
Speaker 2: I very nearly convinced Luca to go under cover in
Speaker 2: the school that showed activity of violent others, but he
Speaker 2: was intensely anxious about the whole affair. Understandably, he'd only
Speaker 2: really just be gotten casework, and before I could boaster
Speaker 2: and cajole him, that case went quite dark, no further
Speaker 2: signs of violence. However, I broached the subject with Charles,
Speaker 2: who has quite a youthful aspect. We might not need
Speaker 2: to apply any sculpting glamours to him at all. Philippo
Speaker 2: was present, and what did she say? Are you seriously
Speaker 2: going to twenty one jump street?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 2: I don't know what that means, but I would indeed
Speaker 2: like to jump this particular street, and I believe Charles
Speaker 2: could pull it off. All the more reason to sort
Speaker 2: the matter of his stocking as quickly as possible. And finally,
Speaker 2: I don't suppose there's any way out of it. I'm
Speaker 2: certain to be censured for my raising adelaide as an enkindled.
Speaker 2: There are reasons some things are forbidden, but when those
Speaker 2: reasons are for the personal benefit of Wihamsa, I must object.
Speaker 2: There were reasons to censure Dalton for his whole genetic
Speaker 2: Paragon program and his creation of the Servant, good reasons,
Speaker 2: but I can't help think why it was confirmed was
Speaker 2: not because of those good reasons, but because he had
Speaker 2: made things that could hurt us. There are few things
Speaker 2: in this world that can harm us, truly, and the
Speaker 2: surest way to transgress and be admonished is to make one,
Speaker 2: which I have done and do not regret. She is
Speaker 2: a wonder creedy, greedy old man that I am. Luca
Speaker 2: and Pip and Charles weren't wonder enough. I had to
Speaker 2: make a fourth. Well, this was pleasant enough. I guess
Speaker 2: I should get used to doing review, data entry and
Speaker 2: low level maje RTE services. After Odia, Olivia and Massetts
Speaker 2: are done with me. It's likely to be all I'm
Speaker 2: allowed to do, though best not to dwell. Maybe I'll
Speaker 2: take Luca, Pip and Charles up on the offer of
Speaker 2: a movie film. Oh Lord, what did I just say? Well,
Speaker 2: no one heard me. Oh, but it's been recorded. Well,
Speaker 2: my saying movie film will just be our little secret. Okay,
Speaker 2: whoever's listening our little secret.
Speaker 3: Well, old man, it's true. I miss you. I miss
Speaker 3: you dearly,