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[omniavincit]

Hi.

Can you draw maps?

[vaccination]

Probably? I've never done one before, but how hard could it be? You looking for a friend for your hand drawing?

[omniavincit]

Good guess. No.

I'll get you a rough sketch to work from. [ Read: he will hand over the one he's made. ] Scale doesn't have to be exact, but it should be functional.

And personalize it, if you want. I'd like it to have character.

[vaccination]

Why do you want a functional yet artsy map?

1/2

[omniavincit]

Those are the best kind.

2/2

[omniavincit]

It's a present.

[vaccination]

For who?

[omniavincit]

I'm not telling.

[vaccination]

Better not be Tess.

[omniavincit]

What'd she do?

[vaccination]

You can ask her. Or Arthur, if he's your pal, too.

[omniavincit]

Arthur wants me dead.

They didn't gang up on you, did they?

[vaccination]

Damn. The hell did you do to him?

No. Tess was just being a brat. Stole my shit.

[omniavincit]

Stole his shit. Some pictures and a map.

And I shot him, but just the once.

What'd she take?

[vaccination]

Guess I relate to him, for once.

Hope you're not trying to be cute and gift him with a map. I don't think he likes me much.

Sketchbook.

[A lie, it was her journal. Close enough.]

[omniavincit]

Probably territorial. He seems like the type.

The map is for her. You don't have to do it.

[vaccination]

I'll do it, but it's not something gross, is it? Do I even want to know what the map leads to?

[omniavincit]

That's a secret. You'll have to steal it to find out.

Can I ask one last favor?

[vaccination]

Fortunately, I'm not a thief.

What?

[omniavincit]

What's your gut instinct on Arthur?

[vaccination]

I don't feel like shooting him.

1/2

[omniavincit]

He's got her pretty well under his thumb.

Don't warden like that, ok?

2/2

[omniavincit]

Where should I leave the sketch?

[vaccination]

She likes him because he's like Joel but nicer. He seems to respect her. If he didn't, she'd be way more pissy than usual.

My room is next to Tess' if you just want to slide it under the door.

[omniavincit]

I suspect he's a nicer version of himself too.

Thanks.

[ It's slipped under the door in short order: a rough sketch, as promised. Crowded with detail, the floor plan spans two pages. The lines strong but hastily drawn—a jagged N in the corner designating north. An X marks what's presumably the start, a wide, open room leading to an endlessly complicated and progressively more twisted series of side rooms, passageways, staircases. There are no other labels, no indication of a path through the rooms upon rooms, but it's not difficult to identify as the library.

A note scribbled in the corner of the second page reads (with enough squinting):

I'll want these back. Ask me for something in return sometime. ]