Havelock Vetinari (
oneman_onevote) wrote2010-03-09 08:49 pm
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Milliways Office: Havelock-Andrew
Havelock slips up to the office with remarkable discretion, considering he has to cross the crowded bar to do so. The illogical Milliways shadows help, but mostly it's a matter of thinking yourself unnoticeable - which, in Havelock's opinion, he could always use some work on.
He hesitates, then knocks on the door to see if anyone is in there. He doesn't exactly want to post a note on the notice board, and delivering a letter through Bar does have the down side that whoever receives it will probably read it out in the open.
He could slip a note underneath, he supposes... but really, if possible, better not.
He hesitates, then knocks on the door to see if anyone is in there. He doesn't exactly want to post a note on the notice board, and delivering a letter through Bar does have the down side that whoever receives it will probably read it out in the open.
He could slip a note underneath, he supposes... but really, if possible, better not.
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"Yeah," he answers, "that's me. Baby said you wanted to speak to me, Mr. ...?"
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"And yes. Puck told me you might be the person to speak to regarding Vlad Tepesh. I apologise for the inconvenience of calling you here."
...Even if Baby did the actual calling.
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Beat. His gaze sharpens a touch.
"Puck told you?" There may be the tiniest emphasis on the word told.
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"In oblique terms," he says. "Perhaps he simply thought to introduce two acquaintances."
Or, you know. One acquaintance and one long-term cohabitant. In any case, Havelock's blank expression clearly doesn't believe that is the case.
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"Perhaps." He's studying Havelock's face. "We're secure here, if you're concerned about being overheard. Or do his restrictions in some measure apply to you...?"
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"No," he says, standing up straight again. The slouching against walls is a Guild habit, but he's a little too wound up to stay there long.
"Apart from not wanting to create more difficulty, naturally. I don't know exactly what binding he is under, but he can't talk about it, or the vampire directly. I can."
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"Presumably he had reason." Not wanting to be torn apart would be a start. "Nita Callahan and I thought there may be possible consequences to his breaking it, even if he could."
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"Could be. Do you get the feeling there's a particular thing he knows that he can't tell?"
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He pauses, and glances over.
"Thought seems to be something of a loophole. Are you acquainted with River Tam?"
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"We've met a few times," he says.
A touch guardedly, remembering Puck's involvement in one of those times.
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"Likewise. But she came and spoke to me after encountering Puck a while after it happened. She'd overheard some details. She also told me the vampire's name, by letter."
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Andrew knows that getting details out of River Tam is a chancy prospect at best.
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(Not very likely, though, he thinks.)
"I've been watching him as far as possible, but I can't always find him immediately."
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"If thought's a loophole," he says slowly, "maybe ..."
A frustrated headshake. "I need terms."
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"Short of asking Miss Tam to follow him about in hopes of overhearing more..." he says, and shrugs. "And I would not like to put her in Tepesh's path."
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(At least once, in his world.)
Beat.
"But hang on, though, what if we just got Puck to stay in one place long enough for River to read him again?"
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"But that's a possibility. I don't think his memory is affected, just his ability to speak of it."
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Andrew frowns. "Maybe not. 'Word or deed,' you said, and that doesn't cover allowing through inaction, thank you Isaac Asimov."
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"He left the room willingly so I could talk openly about it to Nita," he says after a moment. "And he knew what we were about. I think he retains enough agency to help us in that way, so long as it is passive on his part."
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He nibbles absently at the edge of one finger. "There's two things going on here," he says finally. "Stopping the vampire and getting Puck free of it. Those might have one combined solution, but they might not."
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(The wax is black, but no emblem has been stamped into it.)
"Yes," he says. "As to finding another solution - I didn't know how much information Security already had about him, so I have described him and our encounter as best I can. Manner, voice, physical appearance, and all I can remember him saying. It might be useful to someone."
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