With a thousand lies and a good disguise, hit ‘em right between the eyes [post t5]

[chiseler]

[Even if Luke's never said so, he's a fairly perspective person. You have to be if you want to survive where they're from and even moreso in a place like this. Due to this, he's not too surprised that Arumat's taken Kazuma's betrayal harder than most. He doesn't know how close they are or anything, but he can imagine it's a lot the way he felt when Lavi hit betray. That weird feeling where you don't know how to channel how blindsided you are.

So with one last night as a valued player, Luke's wandering around the halls to seek out the space-elf friend toting a bottle of wine in hand that he's confiscated from the trial room again. Dorian had a great tradition going. Even if Arumat won't partake it seems better to have some kind of offering when he shows up at the guy's room.

He even has the audacity to knock on the door to his room with the bottle, waiting patiently.]

Hey, Arumat. Open up. [Luke is apparently not taking no for an answer either.]

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[thanatosincarnate]

{ That gets him to stop drinking for a moment, but he seems to stare off, thinking for a second, before he downs a gulp from the glass again. }

We'll have to be careful then, as always.

{ ... }

That stupid AI probably stores the data somewhere within her own computer database, very much out of our reach. Seeing as its unobtainable right now, it'd be useless to try to think about it much or retrieving it for that matter.

[chiseler]

You always give up that easily? [He sounds more baffled than amused this time, unsure how to proceed.] Just because it's unobtainable right now doesn't mean it'll always be like that. And when she lets down her guard enough, I wanna be there. Just in case.

[Luke stop sounding paranoid, gods.] But I'll let you know what I find.

[thanatosincarnate]

No.

{ He'll grunt, irritated.

Arumat is a conflicting combination of pessimistic, cynical, slightly optimistic, and fatalistic so it's hard. }

...

Just be careful { There's a slight shift in his tone, but it only lasts for a fraction of a second. )-- then again, despite everything I'm sure you'll do fine. That said, I'll entrust that task to you. If I figure out anything else on my end, I'll come on by. Discreetly.

[chiseler]

Have I ever really struck you as someone who's not careful? [Don't push your luck, Luke.] I'm not worried about it. What I am worried about is the possibility of there being another person like Kazuma on this ship.