for roland

[abnormalizes]

Hey, Roland, have you got a minute?

[Evangeline knows Roland, in the sense that all the assistant librarians know Roland. She's not assigned to the Floor of General Works - she's on Netzach's team, has been since they were L-Corp and not the Library - but she certainly spends a lot of time on other floors for her... ahem, hobbies.

Things have settled down a little since they relocated to the Outskirts, and this has been bugging her since the whole Black Silence fight went down.]

Got a question.

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[silentfurioso]

[Roland turns around to face her and raises an eyebrow.]

Huh? Me? Netzach busy sleeping or something? Not that I mind answering, but...

[abnormalizes]

It's a question only you can answer, actually!

So you remember when you Distorted and looked more like a... [She makes vague hand gestures intended to describe his Distorted, non-humanoid form. As if he could forget that whole fight.] Could you look like that again if you wanted to?

[silentfurioso]

[A long silence ensues. One might even call it a Black Silence.]

...What.

[abnormalizes]

It's a valid question! I don't know anyone else who's Distorted and come back from it.

[silentfurioso]

I guess... [It's certainly a question.]

[He sighs.] But it probably doesn't work that way. And I definitely don't want to go through all that again.

Oh, and I'm not gonna become some test subject for it either. [Not that he thinks anyone was planning on it, but it's probably best to cover his bases just in case]

Why'd you want to know, anyway?

[abnormalizes]

Because you looked really cool!

[Only respect for his status as a widower still in mourning prevents her from saying 'hot'. But that is also true.]

If I had the opportunity to look like that I'd never want to be a boring old human.