That's not- I didn't mean you need to pay, Ava. I haven't been paying you. I'll get it and it was my idea.
[Sort of? He'd sort of just felt... compelled to come here. Or was it a hunch? He has trouble telling the difference between those two things these days. He sighs and turns off the tape recorder. They already have this at the Institute, and he doesn't need to record a highlights reel of it and waste the tape.]
The meat grinder, though. It was a Statement by Mikaele Salesa, a man who's appeared more than once throughout our Archives. He's deals in antiques. Many of them to do with the powers. Before that, he was working under Jurgen Leitner. A fool of a man who thought he could collect and protect all the books touched by the powers. Salesa left him long before his library was attacked and destroyed, the books scattered everywhere for innocent people to find. But this story begins on the sea...
[He's dramatic sometimes, Ava, and he's watching her closely to see how she's taken that first bit.]
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Date: 2019-09-03 12:19 am (UTC)[Sort of? He'd sort of just felt... compelled to come here. Or was it a hunch? He has trouble telling the difference between those two things these days. He sighs and turns off the tape recorder. They already have this at the Institute, and he doesn't need to record a highlights reel of it and waste the tape.]
The meat grinder, though. It was a Statement by Mikaele Salesa, a man who's appeared more than once throughout our Archives. He's deals in antiques. Many of them to do with the powers. Before that, he was working under Jurgen Leitner. A fool of a man who thought he could collect and protect all the books touched by the powers. Salesa left him long before his library was attacked and destroyed, the books scattered everywhere for innocent people to find. But this story begins on the sea...
[He's dramatic sometimes, Ava, and he's watching her closely to see how she's taken that first bit.]