text to various

[killingtodeath]

[text sent to Lydia Marin, Adam Weiss, Lila Zacharov, Francesca, and Abigail Hobbs]

THERE IS A TALKING RACCOON IN THE CASTLE.

[text sent to Vi]

Sorry. Also what the actual fuck is going on and why did you bring home a raccoon??

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[theminotaur]

Sir Bancroft. The whole big doppelgänger thing happened right after I got here. Not the escape, but when they realized what happened. Sir Chessing brought back Myri and... some guy, but Sir Bancroft had to stay behind on the island. [ just clearing that up for him. ] So they didn't bring back Sir Bancroft?

[killingtodeath]

I don't think so. I mean I don't know everyone here yet, so maybe? But they weren't exactly doing cartwheels on their way in.

[theminotaur]

[ she manages to look sad, but... she does not have will's empathy. oops. ] That's too bad.

[killingtodeath]

I can ask Vi more once she gets done with her meeting. [He's coming down from his raccoon news high.]

Kinda makes me nervous to go on my own mission.

[theminotaur]

I think they're successes more than they're... [ failures. ] Fred said I'd be fine, so you'll be fine too.

[ she kicks out her foot to nudge him gently, reassuringly. ] I don't think Wynn would give us something we can't manage. Alex went to a party.

[killingtodeath]

I don't know who Alex is but I don't think this will be a party. This is the same place those knights were tortured. Actual torture island.

[ex_defenestratings377]

I know. I think I made the girl who came back from it cry. [ she tugs down her scarf so stiles can see her scar. FIRST TIME SHE'S SHOWED IT TO HIM. ] I guess she's sort of like Will, so my life after her time there was probably too much to handle at once.

[killingtodeath]

[And then Vi's texts come in about Kat and Stiles just... slumps back in his seat. He can't word. He can barely breathe.]

[theminotaur]

Stiles...? What's wrong? [ her expression falls with concern as she fixes her scarf back into place. ]

[killingtodeath]

[He blinks at the sound of her voice, thumbs moving quickly to fire off a response back to Vi's initial dropped bomb.]

One of the knights that went with them. She didn't come back. She was- [He swallows and tries again.] She was showing me some stuff. Magic.

[theminotaur]

[ see abigail's dubious empathy at work. she leans forward to put her hand on his shoulder, squeezing gently. ] I'm sorry.

[killingtodeath]

[He lets out a shaky breath and reaches up to put his hand on hers, squeezing gently.]

Thanks. I guess we're going to hear from Wynn about everything tomorrow.

[theminotaur]

...everything? [ he only mentioned kat, but he was texting for a while, there were paragraphs of text, she saw it. she'd like a little elaboration.

so she can spread the news to will. ]

[killingtodeath]

This must have been the last straw, I guess. [He just turns his phone over so Abigail can read for herself.. He can't even begin to try to properly explain.]

[theminotaur]

[ she reads quickly, face impassive, handing it back to stiles when she's finished. ] I'm sorry. [ because it was more obvious from the text that kat was... is important to stiles. and she has an inkling what vi wouldn't say, but abigail is female. she's female who's spent the better part of the last six months of her life being educated in serial killers. her mind immediately jumps to the worst. especially if kat is the last straw.

she needs to tell will. but... she doesn't want to leave stiles. ] Are you okay?

[killingtodeath]

Yeah, I'm- [Well that's a big load of crap.] Not really, but I'm... [He lets out a long breath.] I don't know. I need to get out of here. I told Lydia I would fill her in once I knew more.

[He finally looks at her and even with the scarf now righted, it registers to him what he saw just as he received this terrible news. It doesn't seem right to try to bring that back up now, though. But it's definitely something he wants to talk about later.]

Thanks. For being here.

[theminotaur]

Go. [ she slides off the desk and motions for him to vacate the chair. she wanted to go to will, but it'll be just as easy to ask him to come to her. ] I'll cover the rest of your shift.

[killingtodeath]

Thanks. Again. [And with that, he will head on out.]

[theminotaur]

[ she watches stiles leave and then immediately texts will because now she is on desk duty... so he needs to come to her. which is roughly what her text says. ]

At front desk. Need you ASAP.

[mydesigns]

[will shows up at the front desk asap because he thinks maybe someone died or something??? how's he supposed to know with that cryptic shit. but yeah he comes down the stairs like one of the brady bunch kids at breakfast, earmuffs from the firing range still down around his neck.] What's wrong?

[theminotaur]

[ that was fast, she is pleased, if only because she was getting anxious on her own. ] The mission to Andres came back. Stiles was texting one of them and she said Wynn declared war and he's holding a war council tomorrow.

[ she doesn't mince words or lead up to it, just lays down the simplest facts for will. if he needs more she can supply the answers, but she isn't trying to be cryptic. that demands a prevaricating nature she doesn't use with will. ]

[mydesigns]

[werwatey???????]

What happened on Andres? [he means that in the sense that he feels like there must have been a colossal fuck-up to be suddenly going to war??? but maybe not. because ... andres. we just don't know.]

[theminotaur]

I don't know. On top of Sir Bancroft still being there, they had to leave another knight behind. It seemed like with the Prime Minister. [ it wasn't hard to extrapolate up from vi's texts and the "him" referenced in "no one is going to let him lay a finger on kat." (wis 18) she raises her eyebrows slightly because will studied serial killers too. stiles wouldn't have made the leap immediately because he was a teenage boy -- abigail was a girl, will was a profiler, the possible assault undertones wouldn't be lost on him. ]

[mydesigns]

[wis 14 — he's not completely sure if that's what she means, but he has enough of an idea. 14 percent of an idea ok.] That must have been the final straw.

[lurings]

I guess -- [ AND THEn OMIGOSH WYNN'S ANNOUNCEMENT CUT HER OFF WHAT. rude. her phone was on the desk so she just stands up and moves to will's side so he can see it too. very close, leeching comfort from his closeness. she doesn't say anything as the feed ends, looking up at will while lulu starts chasing something in her dreams, running as she's laying there on the floor. what do, fakedad? ]