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[loculus]

Did the Mnemo get smaller while I was away?

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[loculus]

Someone who looks, dresses, speaks, and possesses the same fingerprints as the man who returns every year. Spooky, isn't it?

[arasch]

And every year I look forward to asking the same question to see if it's really you.

[loculus]

I do enjoy a tradition. How have you been?

[arasch]

Same old me. You?

[loculus]

I've been transferred.

[arasch]

Is Bishop retiring you to a desk job?

[loculus]

[...] It's a temporary reassignment.

[arasch]

Did you piss him off?

[loculus]

No, Ara.

[arasch]

Of course you did.

[Dom]
Something else happened then.

ara/dom.

[loculus]

Reassignment isn't unusual after nearly 20 years in the field.

dora

[arasch]

Your avoidance and lack of denial is confirmation enough.

dora

[loculus]

Perhaps the intel-gathering is best left to Information; you're reading too much into a situation where nothing was written.

dora

[arasch]

I'm just concerned for a colleague. It's only natural after a year away.

dora

[loculus]

I appreciate the concern but please don't worry. Every Recruitment agent needs time to [...] recalibrate on home turf and I haven't had the pleasure for six years.

dora

[arasch]

You still haven't denied that something has happened

Sure.

dora

[loculus]

And if I'd pissed off your brother, we both know he'd send me on assignment deep in the foothills of Missouri or Saskatchewan.

dora

[arasch]

I'm giving you a public out.

dora

[loculus]

Something I don't need.

dora

[arasch]

That's your right and choice. I'm being saintly.