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Jaime's cell phone is more or less plugged riiiight into his brain, so he tends to pick up like 99% of the time! If not, however...

"Hey, Jaime here! Leave a message, and I'll get back to you ASAP."

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From:

khajidont

Well score one for Kitty Jones. I'm pretty sure that's the best possible way something like that can turn out

You guys still work together now? I mean back home?

From:

rathercommon

Me and Jakob, or me and the guy who arrested me?

From:

khajidont

You and Jakob. Kind of assumed you'd want to stay as far away as possible from the guy who arrested you

From:

rathercommon

Me and Jakob are still friends, yeah. He's not a revolutionary now, though - he really never was. He fled the country (that was what I was talking about earlier, with the documents - it was him who got smuggled out), but I stayed behind to keep fighting. He sends me letters every few months telling me how brilliant it is in Bruges and how I should come and join him. Weirdly, though, the guy who arrested me? Turned into one of my best friends here in this world. Until he got Ported home. I thought Mandrake was the worst, most loathsome little toad back home, but here...I really got the measure of him. It's weird the twists that get thrown at you, isn't it?

From:

khajidont

Wow. Didn't see that one coming.

It makes sense though. People can change and I know a lot of people that used this place as a blank slate. Like they could really improve themselves while they're here. It's a pretty brave thing to do I think

From:

rathercommon

I do, too. Those sorts of people are quite heroic...And he was so brave, too. His childhood was so awful, and he was so brainwashed by everything they taught him, but he threw it all off. It's more than I'd be able to do, I think. I wish there were some way to really support the people trying to make a change.

From:

khajidont

There is.

I mean, you supported him didn't you?

From:

rathercommon

Not really. I mean, you remember when I lied about my name, yeah? It was to hide from him, and to dig into what he was ACTUALLY doing here when he was pretending to be nice. (Never mind that he really WAS doing decent things.) I tried to undermine a few of his friendships, too, because I was just so furious that they liked someone who had done what he did. Honestly, I was really quite beastly.

From:

khajidont

Oh.

[YIKES! KITTY JONES, for shame!]

But somehow you guys managed to move past that. How did you manage that?

From:

rathercommon

Well...We talked a lot. And...You remember the thing with the Hornets. Obviously. He came to help rescue me.

From:

khajidont

Oh.

Oh that's right I remember now. He's the one who got everyone together in the first place isn't he? I never thought much about who was involved. I was too busy

you know

[He'd been worried.]

That's one way of starting to talk about it. And for the record I'm glad that you guys managed to talk it out.

From:

rathercommon

Me, too. I'm so glad. I mean - both because it really was good to know him, and because he opened my eyes to so much. He really made me THINK about who my enemies are, who I take them to be...It's because of him that I really try to understand who I started out hating. As best I can. It's a hard thing to remember, but I really do try. And I hope that because of that, I'll not be that shitty the next time I'm in that sort of situation. God, it's bloody hard though, isn't it. Trying to be a good person is so exhausting.

From:

khajidont

I think we're sort of winding back into that whole forgiveness talk we had huh?

[God, he never talks philosophy, and morals, and all this abstract stuff! Kitty just seems to bring it out in him.]

You're right though, trying to understand people like that is really hard. Did that make you rethink that plan you had? When you first got here?

From:

rathercommon

Truthfully...Yeah. That and realizing that I really haven't got what it takes to be some military leader. When people got hurt coming for me, back when all that happened with the Hornets, I just couldn't take it. Anyway, now I've got another plan, but it's going to sort of tear the world apart and so that's why I've got to become Prime Minister or whatever it is I'll be. So that I can manage all of that when it comes.

Edited Date: 2015-07-28 07:46 pm (UTC)

From:

khajidont

I'm glad. I mean not that your new plan will tear the world apart but you already know I didn't think that that was the best plan in the world. If the whole Hornet thing showed us anything it's that people would probably be willing to follow you back too

[Jaime just wouldn't be one of them.]

And if future you manages to figure out how to end it without involving militaries isn't that way better?

Edited Date: 2015-07-29 03:10 am (UTC)

From:

rathercommon

It's better, yeah. I really do think it is. Keep it secret, though. That I've changed my mind about the plan. I haven't told nearly anyone about it, because if someone from my world showed up and learned about it they could definitely ruin it - and they would, too, if they were a magician.

From:

khajidont

I don't know how it'd even come up. But of course I won't tell anyone. Your secret's safe with me.

From:

rathercommon

Thanks, Jaime. It's really nice to have someone I can trust. (And come on, I know you talk about me ALL the time. You're SO intensely wrapped up in everything I do at all times, it's SO weird how obsessed with me you are.)

From:

khajidont

[...hahahahahaha, oh trust. He should really tell her about the whole Beetle thing one day.]

Anytime.

And oh you know it. Every day it's Kitty Jones this Kitty Jones that. Everyone look at her shoes!