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

[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...]