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Havelock Vetinari ([personal profile] 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.
stilljustandrew: (yeah um about that...)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Andrew nods. "He implied to me that it's his own sworn word that binds him not to speak of it. Um ..." Rueful. "At least I think he did."
stilljustandrew: (hmmm)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
He sucks in a breath, not sharply but thoughtfully.

"Could be. Do you get the feeling there's a particular thing he knows that he can't tell?"
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[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Andrew's head comes up.

"We've met a few times," he says.

A touch guardedly, remembering Puck's involvement in one of those times.
stilljustandrew: (neutral)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 12:43 am (UTC)(link)
"What details? Did she say?"

Andrew knows that getting details out of River Tam is a chancy prospect at best.
stilljustandrew: (hmmm)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Huh." He contemplates that for a moment. "How likely is it he could be doing so without you seeing it?"
stilljustandrew: (yeah um about that...)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Andrew chews his lower lip.

"If thought's a loophole," he says slowly, "maybe ..."

A frustrated headshake. "I need terms."
stilljustandrew: (hmmm)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
"I dunno," he says thoughtfully, "she's gone up against vampires before..."

(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?"
stilljustandrew: (hey wait)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
"Would his oath compel him to move if he knew what we were doing?"

Andrew frowns. "Maybe not. 'Word or deed,' you said, and that doesn't cover allowing through inaction, thank you Isaac Asimov."
stilljustandrew: (hmmm)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay," he says. "So there's that in our favor. And ..."

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."
stilljustandrew: (serious 1)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Good," says Andrew firmly, and reaches for the envelope. "I'll see to it that it gets circulated."
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[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
"Most of the victims suffered at least some memory loss."

A beat. Andrew looks up at him.

"Were you bitten?"
stilljustandrew: (yeah um about that...)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah." Andrew shudders; for him, at least, the mind-invasion is much more viscerally horrifying than the blood-drinking.

(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."
stilljustandrew: (serious 3)

[personal profile] stilljustandrew 2010-03-12 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay." Half a beat. "Do you want me in on trying to break Puck's binding?"

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