As soon as the words were out, Matt should've known he'd said too much. Maybe he did know on some level, but the swell of nerves washed everything into a uniform shade of scarlet. If everything is a red-light alarm, what does one phrase matter over another?
A lot, clearly. Matt spends a minute trying to figure out what to say, or more accurately, what he doesn't have to say. But he's not sure how, when he still doesn't know what M knows. Who he might have talked to. ]
Uhh ...
Well, if you did that, I could track the person down. Which is redundant if you already know where they are. [ Downplay, downplay, downplay. ] There's a bunch of other potential implications of that kind of magic, but I haven't worked extensively with most of them.
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As soon as the words were out, Matt should've known he'd said too much. Maybe he did know on some level, but the swell of nerves washed everything into a uniform shade of scarlet. If everything is a red-light alarm, what does one phrase matter over another?
A lot, clearly. Matt spends a minute trying to figure out what to say, or more accurately, what he doesn't have to say. But he's not sure how, when he still doesn't know what M knows. Who he might have talked to. ]
Uhh ...
Well, if you did that, I could track the person down. Which is redundant if you already know where they are. [ Downplay, downplay, downplay. ] There's a bunch of other potential implications of that kind of magic, but I haven't worked extensively with most of them.