Sixth Cream Cake: [Written/Action]

[vor]

[Filtered to Ivan Vorpatril, 65% unhackable because it's early and he's sick.]

Ivan,

Would you please look in on the horse for me? The Imperial Ass seems to be having trouble getting out of bed today, as the Imperial Sniffles have turned into the Imperial Plague. We apologize for Our impending death and your impending resulting frustrations.

Regretfully,

Gregor

P.S. If this letter caused you alarm, please give yourself a refresher course in detecting the Imperial Sarcasm.

[/Filtered]

[Gregor is sick as a dog. Apartments adjacent to his have probably heard violent, deep, chesty coughing for about two weeks now. Ordinarily, he'd have on-site approved physicians checking him out and prescribing whatever antibiotic was necessary, but here, he has to actually go seek out help. So. To the Battle Dome clinic he goes, looking specifically to see Adele LeBlanc when she's in. He will wait for her, if necessary.

Afterwards, he's going to the library, then the bakery for coffee and something sweet. Anyone stopping in can see him sitting inside, devouring a psychology textbook and sipping coffee, the cream cakes reduced to crumbs. They are the only thing he has eaten all day. He is not looking great, occasionally falling into bad coughing fits, for which he ducks outside, but recovering fairly quickly. When he heads home, he goes straight to bed despite his plans to work out. And the fact that it's the middle of the day.]

[Filtered to Phoenix Ikki 79%]

PI--

I suppose we're supposed to be pen pals, whatever that entails. I hope you're adjusting to the village well.

--GB

Comments

action -- library

[all7seas]

Gregor might notice another man in the library who is nervously thumbing through a great, giant, leatherbound book. A musty, cranky-looking sonofabitch of a book, really. The man's movements with the book are reverent at times, hurried at others, as he flips through its pages.

Also, he is talking to himself.

"Nothing here about it.....mmmmrrr.....hmmm."

action -- library

[vor]

He does notice, and sees the man he helped with the cat. As neither of their activities currently seem to involve cats or treacle, he doesn't call to him, but instead peers at the cover of Jack's book, trying to read it from a distance. His own, a book about psychology, flutters slightly in his trembling hands.

action -- library

[all7seas]

And at this point Jack wouldn't even recall that conversation. It was all a New Feather Trolling operation, anyhow. Not of import to him. Not anymore.

Not much was.

"Hrrrrrm. Bugger bugger."