WHO: Fitcher, Marcoulf, Bartimaeus (+) & YOU WHAT: Ye Olde Catch'all WHEN: Nowish WHERE: Kirkwall, The Gallows, le Misc. NOTES: Starters in comments; if you want something/someone who isn't here, just hit me up and I'll scrape something together.
"Oh, most definitely," she says, pulling from the pipe. "We are all of us creatures of habit when given reason to be, and losing money is fantastic encouragement to improve oneself."
That too is part a joke and part nothing of the sort. It's just one of those things that's both funny and true.
"Besides, it's always best to get your practice in among friends when you can."
It makes sense, as far as practice goes. Practice when the stakes are low. Got it. Totally behind that. But lying to her friends? That's the tricky thing. She's bad at lying to strangers, but she's abysmal at lying to anyone she cares about.
Just thinking about how poorly she lied to Matthias about that incident with Bartimaeus makes her cringe.
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That too is part a joke and part nothing of the sort. It's just one of those things that's both funny and true.
"Besides, it's always best to get your practice in among friends when you can."
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Just thinking about how poorly she lied to Matthias about that incident with Bartimaeus makes her cringe.
And "Hm." is all she says.