[Jedao raises his in return, although he doesn't clink, of a piece with how much more contained he is than his predecessor. He drinks, neither gulping nor sipping, braced not to react. It's probably wasted on him, whatever it is, but it's about the symbolism of it. Not quite a Kel cup, but - friendly, drinking together. Like humans do.]
[He sips his slowly, savoring it. One of the benefits of living on the Barge is getting sacra whenever he wants, instead of having to wait for the bootleggers in the Ghosts to make their next batch.]
[The taste plays about as well with the constant bitter-metal aftertaste his throat finds on everything as anything else does, but he finds he actually likes the smooth rush of heat from the alcohol itself. It's different from the cheaper gin he's shared with James, sleeker somehow.]
How long have you been here? What do you think is the most important part of being a warden?
I've been here... four years. Or nearly so. If you count the year on the flotilla. [Which he does.] The most important part is listening to your inmate. Finding out what they need to graduate. It'll be different for everyone.
[He makes a weird noise, something that starts as a short and ends in a rueful, involuntary laugh.]
Yeah, okay, fair.
Is it ever...I don't know. Weird? That kind of domesticity next to...oh, someone set the library on fire or killed half a dozen people again? Well, time for soup.
Oh, it's fething weird. The way this place deals with murder is fething weird. But having friends and all that... it helps keep me sane. I need people around, like that.
It's...I didn't have very many friends, before I got here.
[He stares into his drink rather than meet Rawne's eyes as he admits this.]
It's - I'm so grateful but it's awful, too. I must have been here two weeks and my first friend was murdered, just like that. And he's an inmate - he didn't have any way to defend himself.
But, I mean. It could be anybody, you know? How are the inmates supposed to believe us about anything if they can die any time and we just...keep going?
[He raises an eyebrow, although he's smiling. He likes Norton, and he's rather glad someone did arm him, but that's not quite the same as trusting him.]
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Date: 2022-06-28 01:47 am (UTC)All right. Two sacra it is. The top shelf kind.
[He orders them and waits until their glasses placed before them before he raises his in a toast.]
To mending bridges.
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Date: 2022-06-28 02:06 am (UTC)Is it okay if I ask you about life here?
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Date: 2022-06-28 02:21 am (UTC)[He sips his slowly, savoring it. One of the benefits of living on the Barge is getting sacra whenever he wants, instead of having to wait for the bootleggers in the Ghosts to make their next batch.]
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Date: 2022-06-28 02:33 am (UTC)How long have you been here? What do you think is the most important part of being a warden?
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Date: 2022-06-28 02:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-28 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-28 02:57 am (UTC)Someone who asked questions about why I was the way I was and listened to the answers. Someone who cared. Who liked me, for some fething reason.
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Date: 2022-06-28 02:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-28 03:01 am (UTC)[It's because of Quentin that he can say things like that and mean it.]
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Date: 2022-06-28 03:40 am (UTC)Oh - I. I met him once, I think. When I was here in the General's place.
White hair, gentle and awkward?
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Date: 2022-06-28 12:56 pm (UTC)They were in a relationship, for a while. Them and Fives. Who's also gone, now.
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Date: 2022-06-28 11:45 pm (UTC)I think I'd forgotten that.
[Ew, Jedao One having sex. Much worse, Jedao One having sex with someone Jedao himself has a teeny tiny maybe crush on.]
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Date: 2022-06-28 11:54 pm (UTC)[He likes all of them, he liked those dinners, but the blatant affection was a little much at times.]
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Date: 2022-06-29 12:06 am (UTC)Yeah, okay, fair.
Is it ever...I don't know. Weird? That kind of domesticity next to...oh, someone set the library on fire or killed half a dozen people again? Well, time for soup.
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Date: 2022-06-29 12:10 am (UTC)[It took him a while to admit that.]
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Date: 2022-06-29 12:48 am (UTC)[He stares into his drink rather than meet Rawne's eyes as he admits this.]
It's - I'm so grateful but it's awful, too. I must have been here two weeks and my first friend was murdered, just like that. And he's an inmate - he didn't have any way to defend himself.
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Date: 2022-06-29 12:51 am (UTC)[He was lucky enough to get here between murder sprees.]
Who's your friend?
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Date: 2022-06-29 01:02 am (UTC)But, I mean. It could be anybody, you know? How are the inmates supposed to believe us about anything if they can die any time and we just...keep going?
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Date: 2022-06-29 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-29 01:23 am (UTC)If your inmate asked you for weapons, for self-defense - how would you decide?
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Date: 2022-06-29 01:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-29 01:44 am (UTC)[He raises an eyebrow, although he's smiling. He likes Norton, and he's rather glad someone did arm him, but that's not quite the same as trusting him.]
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Date: 2022-06-29 01:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-06-29 02:07 am (UTC)[Jedao points out, though not sharply. He's not, personally, very mad about it, but it does seem relevant.]
Not saying you're wrong about him. Just...not all reasons are great reasons, even if you have them.
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Date: 2022-06-29 02:12 am (UTC)[He'd forgotten, for a moment.]
I'm not happy he did that either. I thought... if someone tried to pressure him like that, he'd come to me.
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