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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"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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"As far as I know, my memory is unaffected," he adds, as a caveat. "But the possibility of details being missing is there, I suppose."
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A beat. Andrew looks up at him.
"Were you bitten?"
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He doesn't look pleased about it.
"And no, I wasn't. I don't think that is necessarily connected, as he could get into my mind perfectly well without doing so."
His self-control is back again, so he doesn't show any of the discomfort he feels about that.
But really, who wouldn't feel that?
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(This may or may not have something to do with the fact that he works with a couple of vampires.)
"I don't know how the rest of Security feels about it, but I kinda feel like wiping someone's memory without consent should count as violence."
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But Andrew is right. Havelock would have dealt better with blood-drinking.
"It should," he agrees quietly.
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