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[saidrepent]

If this is someone's idea of a practical joke, I can tell you that you could have picked a better occasion, which would be never. [The voice is one that sounds utterly unimpressed with whatever the hell is going on, with just enough of an aggressive undercurrent to sound biting.] I don't have the time to be dealing with this, nor should you have

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[orangetoughguy]

You've got some hard fightin' words.

[saidrepent]

You've got a reason why I shouldn't?

[orangetoughguy]

Do you have any idea what you're up against?

[saidrepent]

[A pause.] I could guess, but it sounds like I might be wrong.

Either way, I'm not the kind of timekeeper who can be pushed around by intimidation.

voice;

[oneminutemaze]

[ First someone who looks like Robert Fischer, and now someone who sounds like him? It's almost enough to get Ariadne to stop mulling over plot idea for the current curse.

Instead, she decides to see what she can get from the source material and determine as canon. ]

Mr. Weis?

voice;

[saidrepent]

[The eyeroll is nearly audible in his reply.] Yes, Mr. Philippe Weis. That Weis.

voice;

[oneminutemaze]

[ There's a pause. ]

I've never heard of him.

[ She ships them already. Fanfiction curse, you are a terrible thing. ]

voice;

[saidrepent]

You've seen his name before. [Surely. Then again, most people in the lower time zones paid more attention to their clocks than the name of the timelender branch that kept them alive.]

[eiremagic]

Not a joke.

Welcome to the City, boyo.

[saidrepent]

The City. [Right.]

And what time zone does this city belong to?

[eiremagic]

GMT.

[Well, Eden's in GMT so naturally....]

[saidrepent]

GMT?

[He puzzles over that for a moment before it occurs to him-] No, I didn't mean that... Which time zone is this?

[shifts]

[ The thing that gets Eames the most, here, is that the pattern of speech is entirely on point for Robert Fischer's business affairs - or what he'd seen of it, studying Browning. True that some of it involved extrapolation, because there isn't the hint of grief here, the quiet undertones that carried Fischer on through. ]

Crystal clear.

[saidrepent]

[Well. The accent catches his ear before anything else.]

What zone are you from?

[shifts]

Sorry?

[saidrepent]

Your time zone. [Why was that so difficult to understand.] You don't sound like you're from out of California.

[greding]

Blimey. That's coming in with a bang, innit?

[saidrepent]

[Have a long-suffering sigh.] How is that a bang, exactly?

[greding]

Not many people come into this place with so many demands, mate.

[saidrepent]

They're hardly demands if they're not without reason.