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

[passional]

[ Knock knock. ]

How did the nervous crow proceed? With caw-tion.

[ ...Apparently Inigo is in the mood for shitty jokes tonight. ]

[andexecutioner]

[Oh, hey, Inigo.

The office looks as it usually does, and it looks like Juri is back to playing European solitaire again; he's got a pair of stuffed cats up on the shelves, white and orange, and he's generally just kind of looking a little pale and listless when you come in.

...Of course, the pun is going to get his attention, and he'll look up once it's out there.]

...That was horrible, I'm actually kinda impressed.

[passional]

You wound me, Adjudicator.

[ His tone is light, joking, and he appears to be in high spirits. ]

Was the pun a cawtastrophe?

[andexecutioner]

[...............]

No, but it was caws enough for a remark anyway.

[passional]

[ That gets an amused noise out of him. ]

Maybe I should've come up with the purrfect cat pun instead.

[andexecutioner]

[Heh.]

You seem like you're in a good mood tonight. Any reason?

[passional]

I got a pleasant memory back and I really like the greenhouse. Thank you, it's the best new addition.

[andexecutioner]

...You're welcome. I thought a few people might like that; it's good to know it's appreciated.

[passional]

It doesn't beat actually being outdoors, but it's nice and peaceful there and the flowers are beautiful.

[ he's going to pray that nobody will taint the greenhouse with a murder. ]

...How do the plants grow there when there's no sunlight?

[andexecutioner]

That's a good question.

[And judging from his tone, he doesn't seem to know either; they just...do, apparently.]

[passional]

So you don't know. Huh.

[andexecutioner]

I actually don't. It's just the way things work around here; I've never really questioned it.

[passional]

I see. [ He doesn't really seem satisfied, but if Juri doesn't know... ]

This is changing the subject, but there's something I've been wondering. What's with those creepy pens that people have gotten from the machine? You haven't put the souls of the deceased in them, right?

[andexecutioner]

[...INIGO, YOU ASK SOME OF THE BEST QUESTIONS SOMETIMES, HOLY SHIT.]

I...what? No. I haven't been putting the dead people in pens, no.

[passional]

[ I AM SO SORRY ABOUT THIS GUY. ]

Thank the gods. [ He didn't think that was the case, but it's nice to have it verified, he supposes. ] So what's going on with the pens? Are they cursed or possessed?

[ He pauses as something occurs to him. ]

...Would you be able to remove a soul from a pen, if it's been possessed?

[andexecutioner]

[...Uh.]

You know, I actually don't know why they do...whatever it is they're doing. But if something's actually possessing it, then...yeah? Probably.

[he is so fucking confused right now

of all things he expected to be asked to do at some point, "literal pen exorcism" was not anywhere near that list]

[passional]

...

...Do you want to exorcise a pen.

[ what has his life become, he did not come into Juri's office expecting to utter anything resembling this sentence. ]

[andexecutioner]

...If you want me to try to exorcise a pen, I can try to exorcise a pen.

[W H Y]

[passional]

It's in my room; I'll be back in a moment.

[ Why is this a thing that is happening. Inigo leaves the office, and a few minutes later he returns holding a pen which he sets down on Juri's desk. ]

[andexecutioner]

This...?

[He'll pick it up after a moment, staring at it as he turns it over in his hands; he takes a second to try to write with it - I AM NO LONGER HUMAN, thanks, pen - before just kind of. Staring some more.]

I've never actually tried this on an inanimate object, so I'm not going to guarantee anything.

[passional]

That's literally the only thing it writes. [ He says as he watches Juri write with it. The staring the pen gets out of him is actually sort of amusing. ]

Alright.

[ Time to watch and find out if this will result in an actual exorcism. Inigo looks at him intently, curiosity etched on his face. ]

[andexecutioner]

[Well, he's going to touch it and look...incredibly focused at it for a while before just sort of. Stopping? He actually looks sort of cockblocked, what the hell.]

...Huh.

[passional]

...You can't do it?

[ He actually seems a little disappointed. ]