[CLOSED] don't believe me if I claim to be your friend.

[minrathousian]

WHO: Atticus Vedici, Benedict Artemaeus, Petrana de Cedoux
WHAT: Madame de Cedoux pays a visit to the Gallows dungeon, and Atticus answers her questions.
WHEN: Now-ish.
WHERE: The Gallows dungeon.
NOTES: (CW: brief mention of child death.) Set sometime after the arrival and imprisonment within the Gallows of the Venatori prisoners.

It has become difficult for Atticus to confidently track the exact number of days he and Benedict have been prisoners of the Inquisition, but if nothing else, this upstart organization ensures he doesn't have much time to dwell on it. He is never bored due to lack of work--not even in his cell, during the hours he would prefer to devote to sleep.

This evening (which is an especially cold one for dungeon residents), a number of texts have been brought to him accompanied by "requests" (translation: demands, on pain of additional unpleasantries) to translate, annotate, or decode information relating to ongoing Venatori projects. Without a desk to speak of, Atticus has rendered one stiff-backed book into a makeshift writing surface, and is frowning pensively at a line of virtually illegible script in an intercepted message.

He is either studiously ignoring his apprentice, or is so absorbed in his work that he has temporarily forgotten that he is present in the cell across the corridor from his own.

(Standing nearby, perpetually on guard, is a templar.)