PRIVATE MEETINGS

[andexecutioner]

If you'd like to have a private meeting with the Adjudicator, this is where you should go! The Adjudicator is available at almost all hours of the day; just knock and he'll answer.

Comments are screened for privacy; no eavesdropping, that's rude.

Comments

[oasisrose]

[She's almost curious which people here he likes. But given that he made a similar comment about the trial being "interesting," she's unsure if she wants to know more about what fits that criteria.]

So you're not going to play favorites, then. Or even if you did, you'd still sit back and let the game go on.

[More importantly, though, it sounded like Fern was right -- that the early notion that they could convince the Adjudicator to help them was wrong. And that he wasn't avoiding the outcome simply because he didn't have as much power as he presented.]

[Of course, the fact that he added 'not my place' makes her wonder.]

But you think it's worth it, all the same?

[andexecutioner]

[He actually seems to have to consider that one.]

I think it might be. It's hard to tell right now.

[oasisrose]

[He's so nonchalant about it. Granted, he's nonchalant about all of this, but somehow Jean expected a more decisive answer on this question.]

[She turns it over in her mind, trying to decide if she should be preaching to their captor.]

... well, if I may offer some advice? There are some costs that aren't worth any reward. Things you can never reclaim, once they're gone.

[She folds her arms.] Whatever it is you're doing this for, I hope you've taken the time to consider that.

[andexecutioner]

[That gets an odd sound out of him; mildly derisive, but not overly so. Just enough to make it clear that he's sort of amused by that whole thing.]

It's kind of ironic that you're talking to me about all that, actually. Trust me, I know how it is with things like that.

[oasisrose]

Do you, really? You don't seem like someone who has many regrets.

[To be fair... Jean probably doesn't, either.]

[andexecutioner]

That's because I don't.

[Not...as though he seems terribly forthcoming about the entire thing.]

[oasisrose]

[So, not something she can sympathize with, but maybe...]

... something that was worth it, then?

[Or maybe not. At this point, she's guessing.]

[andexecutioner]

Something that will be, once I've got it.

[oasisrose]

[Part of his greater goal here, then. Unless he's doing a lot of multitasking.]

[Still, this has been pretty productive. There's still a very big, unsettling unknown, but she can't think of more questions to try and uncover more details about it. Except...]

If you don't mind, I have one last question for you.

Before this all ends, however that may be. Will we get an answer on what it was all for?

[andexecutioner]

[There's actually no hesitation in it this time, when he answers her.]

Yeah, you will.

[oasisrose]

... all right, then. I'll be waiting for it.

[That's the closest he gets to a goodbye as she departs. Now to find out whether that's a good thing or a bad thing. Hopefully ahead of schedule, while there's still time to stop it, just in case they need to...]