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Aldaras lets the university have hold of the necklace again so they can finish learning everything about it. He'll start molding it when the Dean's learned all of its quirks - trying it now could accidentally make some aspect of it worse. Besides, it takes time, it's not like he can manage any progress in the time that it'll take for the Dean to identify anyway. Best to know where he's going when he starts going there.

News spreads pretty quickly about the knife's new location at the bottom of the ocean. Aldaras and Sintre become celebrities, along with being rich. Sintre is nigh-impossible to find in his hermithood. Aldaras - is not. The necklace is his. The mission to go encase the knife in concrete was organized by him. He's now deemed to be an important person, and as bewildering as that is, he works to roll with it.

He ends up invited to a party. It's the type of party with lots of important, famous people attending. He can bring one guest with him.

Right, he knows who he wants to bring, but first he has to ask her. Time to go find Annie.

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"Nnnot that I know 'f?"

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"And its side effect involves talking. Do you think we could put out a false rumor about what it does that would make it appealing to the thimble thief and set a trap?"

"I love you," he declares. "Let's do that."

She beams and kisses him.

He kisses her back, clumsy from drowsiness.

And she finishes her cereal and puts the bowl aside and flops on him. "Something transportational or maybe stealth-related. And maybe the original owner can be convinced to take the thing home so the thief's not risking an assault on the university again when they're expecting it."

"Bet the university," he adds, "will help. S'not like I don't have their number..."

"Yep."

He giggles, a bit. "I love you," he adds, again. "You're clever."

"I love you too."

Snuggle.

"Iiiii need tea or won't be function'l for hours," he mumbles apologetically, kissing her and then getting up to figure out how to put on pants. It's surprisingly difficult.

Annie helps. Mostly.

He snickers, thanks her for her help with a kiss, and goes to retrieve tea.

A few minutes later, he returns with tea and is looking much more lucid.

"Is that my shirt?" he asks, amused. Annie seems to be wearing it.

"Well, I only have the one outfit here and it's not in the best shape. You have lots of shirts here."

"Fair! It looks better on you, anyway."

He sits next to her, snuggling as much as is safe with hot tea in hand.

"I like the bait and trap idea," praises Aldaras.

"Good. Hopefully the department will have an idea of what exactly to say the thing does and how to catch the thief if the bait works..."

"Yeah. If not - I throw it at my sister, 'catching thieves' seems to be her style. At least the combative portions of it."

"And she's conveniently already necklaced."

"Mhm! Though. I think the mind reader would notice if every single person around the bait was necklaced."

Edited Date: 2014-09-26 05:05 am (UTC)

"I mean, there's a perfectly good reason for that - the artifact is appealing and has to be guarded by necklaced people. We just need to make it look like it isn't guarded very well - having a non-necklaced dupe loitering around too would be weird."

"Fair. Okay. I'm just worried that if it doesn't seem like it's worth the risk to get to it, we'll lose the chance to grab them."

"What we could do is have it announced that the artifact does thus and such a thing, and will be transferred to an undisclosed location, and then tell some un-necklaced people when and where it's being moved."

"I extra, special love you."

He grins and kisses her.

"I'll call the university after breakfast and a shower? Or should we actually visit, it might be smart to actually visit instead."

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