When Needs Must

[elementoftreachery]

 Really Mun, while I appreciate your interest in playing me, I am going to have to protest where it is you plan to send me. 

It is not a place fit for a leading man, after all, least of all because they intend to perform some rather risky surgeries. If I had wanted to be in the company of people like my father again, why I would have gone back to Archadia.

And do be honest, you know that our intrepid little group would be utterly hopeless without me. Any group is without the leading man. 

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[fatedcircle]

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The "leading man" being you?

[elementoftreachery]

But of course, who else?

[fatedcircle]

(How would I know?)

[There's no actual answer this time. Just a shrug, which is largely meant to accompany his thoughts.]

[elementoftreachery]

You're not a talkative one, are you?

[fatedcircle]

No.

[It's a fairly blunt answer, but it is the truth. If he can get to the point of something in relatively few words, so much the better, as far as he's concerned.]

[elementoftreachery]

Well, that's quite all right. There's more to be said for a person of few words than one of many.

[fatedcircle]

[There's the faintest breath of something less a laugh and more a noise of amusement at that.]

Not everyone agrees on that. But there is.