002 🔥 TEXT - WANTED: WRITER

[headhunt]

Type: Text
Sender ID: headhunt (Karlach)
To: Public
Subject: WANTED: WRITER
Warnings: N/A

need a writer. the kind who can do the big swirly letters with a quill on the parchment.

will pay good coin for services rendered.

contact karlach.


( is she aware she can use the network for more than job postings? it's unclear. )

Comments

[headhunt]

no, i was

( she grins at her phone. she had dialed it back this time since gale gets embarrassed. )

thought i'd keep things polite for you

( unless...? )

[netherese]

While I do appreciate the thoughtful gesture, I think we're well past polite at this point. Playful wordplay seems safe enough, don't you think?

[He does get flustered, but this is different from her broadcasting to the entire shellphone network that someone ought to 'ride him until he cries.' If only he knew what she was saying to Darin—]

Still, that is very kind of you.

[headhunt]

not sure safe is the word anyone would use to describe me

( including during what gale calls wordplay. )

[netherese]

Hmm, perhaps we ought best consider it a very loose definition, in this case.

[He doesn't particularly like that they have to be so careful when they've both made it clear they want something more, but with their respective complications, he thinks they are at least owed the freedom of some playful banter!]

[headhunt]

or perhaps we could throw it out of the window altogether?

( because she sure is. there's quite the letter waiting in gale's near future. )

[netherese]

[Oh, he'll certainly be in for a shock with that one— though hardly the unpleasant sort.]

That does sound rather like you.

[She can probably imagine exactly the sort of teasing tone he's wont to use.]

[headhunt]

then you already know what i'll say next, yeah?

you've only got one life to live
might as well actually live it

[netherese]

Good advice that I really should keep in mind.

[He's been playing things rather safely— it's not quite like when he had hermited himself away in his tower, but he can himself coming dangerously close to regressing.]

I'll leave it to you to remind me of that, hm?