“You are. Unless you’d prefer trying this in public, out in the courtyard, in broad daylight?”
Strange doesn’t mean to sound sharp. It’s mostly his usual baseline level of arch, dry humour; it’s been a trying couple months and the prospect of this experiment isn’t exactly pleasant for either of them, and presumably worse for her, and he doesn’t relish what’s coming.
He leads the way to one of the larger cells: clean, well-lit with torches; no caricature of a dripping wet oubliette with scurrying rats although there are, probably, rats around here somewhere. There are chains attached to the stone walls and some reinforcements on deck outside if he needs to summon help. Strange is confident in his being able to contain one (1) werewolf — there’s magic beneath his fingertips, additional eldritch restraints on the verge of being summoned if necessary — but still, best to tackle this with backup on-call.
“I was going to get you a padded chair,” he says, ruminating, “but comfort might be contrary to our purposes today. What were the conditions like, the last time you recall this happening? If we can, uh, reproduce it as closely as possible —”
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Strange doesn’t mean to sound sharp. It’s mostly his usual baseline level of arch, dry humour; it’s been a trying couple months and the prospect of this experiment isn’t exactly pleasant for either of them, and presumably worse for her, and he doesn’t relish what’s coming.
He leads the way to one of the larger cells: clean, well-lit with torches; no caricature of a dripping wet oubliette with scurrying rats although there are, probably, rats around here somewhere. There are chains attached to the stone walls and some reinforcements on deck outside if he needs to summon help. Strange is confident in his being able to contain one (1) werewolf — there’s magic beneath his fingertips, additional eldritch restraints on the verge of being summoned if necessary — but still, best to tackle this with backup on-call.
“I was going to get you a padded chair,” he says, ruminating, “but comfort might be contrary to our purposes today. What were the conditions like, the last time you recall this happening? If we can, uh, reproduce it as closely as possible —”
He winces a little, saying it.
It’s no surprise they’ve been putting this off.