[There's all sorts of things that happen away from Jarilo-VI. Aeons and Stellarons and conspiracies aplenty, overzealous directors in the IPC who step on the wrong toes, Emanators of various kinds getting mixed up in everybody's business. It's a wild galaxy out there, Gepard, and Sampo was up to his elbows in that mess.]
[But it's all lead back to him being in this snowy little alley in Belobog. What does that tell you about Sampo Koski?]
[Gepard's annoyed posture makes everything feel a little more normal, even though he's in civilian clothes and doesn't have that massive guitar case strapped to him anymore. A little hint of the man that he used to be, underneath the veneer of simple domesticity.]
Call you? I didn't say a word! I was just minding my own business, you're the one that decided to follow me.
[See, Gepard? This whole interaction was all your idea.]
But I had heard a few little rumors that you weren't in the guard anymore! I wouldn't have believed it, but I guess it must be true.
[A lie, because he obviously already knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Gepard had left the Silvermanes behind-- but he also isn't about to come out and tell Gepard that he'd been stalking him for the past few days. Gepard doesn't need to be a captain to get Sampo arrested, all he's got to do is send a text message or two and he'd have guardsmen up his ass in a heartbeat. Gepard's men had loved him and he has friends in high places, and that kind of loyalty doesn't just go away.]
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[There's all sorts of things that happen away from Jarilo-VI. Aeons and Stellarons and conspiracies aplenty, overzealous directors in the IPC who step on the wrong toes, Emanators of various kinds getting mixed up in everybody's business. It's a wild galaxy out there, Gepard, and Sampo was up to his elbows in that mess.]
[But it's all lead back to him being in this snowy little alley in Belobog. What does that tell you about Sampo Koski?]
[Gepard's annoyed posture makes everything feel a little more normal, even though he's in civilian clothes and doesn't have that massive guitar case strapped to him anymore. A little hint of the man that he used to be, underneath the veneer of simple domesticity.]
Call you? I didn't say a word! I was just minding my own business, you're the one that decided to follow me.
[See, Gepard? This whole interaction was all your idea.]
But I had heard a few little rumors that you weren't in the guard anymore! I wouldn't have believed it, but I guess it must be true.
[A lie, because he obviously already knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that Gepard had left the Silvermanes behind-- but he also isn't about to come out and tell Gepard that he'd been stalking him for the past few days. Gepard doesn't need to be a captain to get Sampo arrested, all he's got to do is send a text message or two and he'd have guardsmen up his ass in a heartbeat. Gepard's men had loved him and he has friends in high places, and that kind of loyalty doesn't just go away.]