PRIVATE ☏ voicemail for jack chessing

[slay]

Hey, Jack. It's Buffy.

I know it's ... it's been a while, but I figured Gar's been updating you and all. Uh, it looks like Wynn's not too happy with how the mission stuff's going -- which, lame, because we're making total progress, but -- [ she stops herself in a way that's sudden enough that it seems like something on her end of the line makes her realize she shouldn't be ... whining about it to jack. ] Right.

Uh, he ordered us all back to the castle, but I figured I'd call and let you know I'm not going with. Myrilandel and I are doing this thing in Chicago. I was gonna say sorry that I'll miss you, but I guess if you're not picking up you're, uh, you're probably not at the castle, anyway.

Anyway. Hope I'm not fired by the time you get this. Call me back if you get the chance.

Comments

[chessing]

I wouldn't count it quite yet. There's been a... development.

But I would caution the lot of you not to take it too harshly that you've been recalled. It may have nothing to do with your performance at all. Wynn thinks... strategically, but he doesn't think of us all as merely pawns.

[slay]

He's an ocean away from everything that's happened. We're leaps and bounds ahead of where we were when we left. How can he know what the right strategic call is when he isn't the one who's been here?

[chessing]

The world is somewhat smaller than you give it credit for. And he has been at this for... quite some time, you know.

[slay]

penis

[slay]

Probably centuries. I get that. But those are centuries that this Talisman hasn't been found in, and in five months, we've gotten a lot closer to it than we're getting credit for if we're being pulled back now. No amount of experience changes that he's hearing it all secondhand because he's not actually here. He has no idea what kind of progress we've made.

[dragonsclaw]

Then perhaps he merely needs to hear more than what has been reported.

[slay]

If you're back by the time Myri and I come back to the castle and Wynn doesn't decide to keep us there ... are you gonna come back out with us? [ no she doesn't care about wild changes of conversation topic because she's getting all of her childishness out in one go. it's not fair. others have their knights along for the ride to observe them. kat promoted myri because she got to see how well she's been doing. it's hard not to feel the absence of her own, even as close as she's gotten to kat. ]

[chessing]

I imagine Wynn would find it beneficial to have a Dragon's Claw on the case, considering the importance of the artifact.

[slay]

Wait, seriously? You mean it? [ omg blind hope pays off. ]

[dragonsclaw]

It certainly isn't an impossibility.

[slay]

[ yaaaaaay ]

Well, in that case, I'll talk to you about the other stuff when we're back in England. [ c: c: c: she was going to mention david anders but now she's just going to ... leave that for another time. ] And hopefully I'll see you in a couple days.

[chessing]

A few days might be too early an estimate.

[slay]

I was shooting for optimism.

[chessing]

Sometimes it's difficult to tell with Americans.

[slay]

... Are you sure you don't have that backwards?

[dragonsclaw]

Quite.

Will that be all for now, Buffy?

[slay]

Uh, yeah. Yeah. I'll see you soon.

[dragonsclaw]

Do take care.