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[explosivecombat]

[TEXT; LOCKED TO doitrockapella]

The offer for conversation is always open, should you desire to take me up on it; I can't guarantee that I'll respond immediately, nor will it necessarily be the response you want, but I'll always respond in some way.

In the name of enlightened discourse.

Comments

[doitrockapella]

It made him happy. Not so much that you answered him in Morse — he understands just fine if you talk to him — but that you evidently could understand him. I usually have to translate.

Which understandably makes it difficult when he wants to pass secret messages about me and they have to go through me to do it.

[explosivecombat]

Oh, I can imagine.

Why did you pick it up yourself? Was it just something you felt like learning?

[doitrockapella]

Codes and ciphers fascinated me as a child. As I got older, that area of interest became useful at my...job. The one I had prior to my current career, that is.

[explosivecombat]

And what sort of job was that?

[doitrockapella]

Take a guess. You ought to know enough about me by now to make a fair attempt of it.

Either way, I'll tell you once you do.

[explosivecombat]

Honestly, I would place you as some sort of interrogator who deals with international affairs.

[doitrockapella]

An interrogator?

[explosivecombat]

What? How far off am I?

[doitrockapella]

You're not; I'm just trying to decide whether or not I ought to be flattered.

My job was to hunt down criminals. That's why I ended up crossing paths with so many psychopaths.

[explosivecombat]

Ah - that sort of thing was always left to a unit of our military, which is why it wouldn't have occurred to me; it would have involved far too many weapons and entirely too much bloodshed for your liking, because it's not uncommon for our criminals to be capable of using alchemy and they tended to not go quietly.

Interrogation would involve far less of that.

[doitrockapella]

For what it's worth, my criminals tended not to go quietly, either. It made things unbalanced — and a challenge — because I wouldn't use weapons against them, but they had no such reservations about me.

[explosivecombat]

Oh, I can imagine they wouldn't.

Our weapons are just a bit more unbalanced than what most here seem to be used to; I trust you see what I mean now that you've gotten to see one of them in action now.

[doitrockapella]

I'd be lying if I said there wasn't a moment where it crossed my mind, what I'd have done if I'd been tasked with the challenge of stopping you.

There's not much that can, when you have your alchemy at your fingertips, is there?

[explosivecombat]

Not without either using another alchemist or putting a bullet in the criminal's brain.

What would you have done?

[doitrockapella]

I don't know. Blown up the ledge underneath you, maybe, to put you off your footing while I hooked you and pulled you over the side. It wouldn't have been easy; you saw me coming.

But I would've thought of something. Or died trying.

[explosivecombat]

No one died when I was arrested in Amestris, actually.

[doitrockapella]

I wasn't sure if you were going to recognize me, you know. Preoccupied as you were at the time.

[explosivecombat]

"Preoccupied." That's how we're referring to it now?

[doitrockapella]

I'm aiming to avoid being cruel.

[explosivecombat]

Did you think I would kill you?

[doitrockapella]

Not after you told me I wasn't going to die.

Before I knew if you'd recognize me, I might've been collateral damage, if I'd been careless and gotten in your way.

[explosivecombat]

If I hadn't recognized you, you would have been.

I've never been to the point where I don't recognize people anymore, you know. I remember everything that happens when I fight, and everything that I remembered beforehand; I'm not blacked-out or anything.

[doitrockapella]

Well, I know that now. You were doing an excellent impression to the contrary then.

I still couldn't have stayed away, though.

[explosivecombat]

And why is that?

[doitrockapella]

И кто теперь одна ищет лести сегодня вечером?