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[summertimeblues]

Shit there's video calling now?





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[vorrutyer]

And what if your murderer wakes up? Comes out of stasis?

[summertimeblues]

then I'll send him your way. Hardboiled vor like you, it should be a piece of cake

[vorrutyer]

And if you're not around? If you're back in stasis?

[summertimeblues]

[too late, he realizes his mistake. That was almost as good as a picture and a set of dusty prints that they had the perpetrator upstairs.]

i don't even know what he looks like. I was eleven and i got out clean. People here are mind readers and fire spitters and all that magical crap. Pretty sure if a killer got loose they'd smoke him out real quick

[vorrutyer]

Please. You know exactly who he is. And they might smoke him out - but only after they knew they had to look for someone. Only after someone was dead.

Why are you afraid to speak? You don't strike me as a coward.

[summertimeblues]

it doesn't take a genius to figure out that a sixth grader isn't responsible for a year long massacre when he was stuck in school for the bulk of it

Forgive me if I'm not nancy drew over here. It's ancient history anyway

[vorrutyer]

"I'll send him your way." Please. Give my intellect a bit of credit.

[summertimeblues]

it's called shit talk, genius

How about if i turn up drawn and quartered you get to read my eulogy? Make it a four stanza I Told You So

[vorrutyer]

It's not really your death I'm concerned about.

[summertimeblues]

don't worry, you're about twenty years past ripe for a baby killer's taste anyway

Nice talking to you By

[vorrutyer]

[ The last thing he wants is to bare any part of his heart to Richie. God knows. But - well. He's humiliated himself worse for less crucial information. Such is the life of a spy. ]

You really can't conceive of any reason I might want to keep children from being torn apart? After offering me your sweet condolences?

[summertimeblues]

[Too bad the feeling's mutual.

Too bad that Richie is about 99% sure that even if he told more people about it, it wouldn't do a lick of good. They'd be too old to see it. They'd start looking the other way, and they'd kick up a fuss in the wrong directions. They'd find another Henry Bowers and they'd put the matter to rest once the lynching was done. It would eat and then It would sleep, and it would be a quarter of a century before anyone got a third shot at putting the beast to rest.

And what he's 100% certain of is that though there could be people around who might have a hope of helping, Lord Emperor Byerly is not one of them.]

What did you say? History is like water to you? Useless and available to spill?

Goodnight, good sir, and sweet dreams to you.

[vorrutyer]

[ He presses his lips together. ]

I'm not going to give up on this, Richard.

[summertimeblues]

[sadly, his response now is silence. Adios muchacho, hasta lu-never]