IC - INBOX/VOICEMAIL/TEXT/THREATENING LETTER

[il_mostro]

Please leave all IC correspondence for Dr Hannibal Lecter here.

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[il_mostro]

[Hannibal looks up from his tea-cup, listening with a quiet intensity that would unnerve some people. He had no doubts that the other man would not even bat an eyelash. They both know his Master, after all. Instead, Hannibal takes another sip of his tea and keeps his tongue silent and his gaze steady on the young man.]

Well. Then I suppose I shall not run out into the middle of the street, screaming my crimes at the top of my lungs. [Completely dead-pan, that, before he takes up the tea pot to refill their cups.] Although I do agree. This cage is much smaller, and many more ripples would be felt. Staying low is the wiser plan.

[He was simply going to have to cultivate a much bigger escape plan than the last two times he had been put in this situation. Burn all his bridges behind him, if the time came where he only had two choices. Stay and die, run and fight. It was simple biological imperative -- but why give into that when he had nothing to fear at the moment? It would be foolish.]

I shall simply balance myself on the narrow blade between pragmatism, and paranoia, then.

[endthem]

[Legato's smiles are always empty, but this one is also on the flat side as he watches the other man busy with the tea. He takes his time, he waits with measured politeness, and he stirs in his glut of sugar before he responds.]

That night I'd first noticed your activities in the city, I'd sensed every move with my eyes closed, from a block and a half away. While I'm not claiming that there are many who can do what I do, I would like to press the point that running through the middle of the city with blood on your hands is not what it will take for them to notice your guilt and set them on your trail.

[He is not trying to completely trigger the man's paranoia either, so he doesn't leave much of a pause before continuing.]

When I say that the game is different in these tight spaces, I mean it, and I mean it for all parties involved. Neither side wants a war when there is no room to move, and when there are larger, more insidious targets over all of our heads. Honesty, diplomacy, and compromise go much farther here than they would in a place where you are the biggest monster around to hunt.

[il_mostro]

[Hannibal arched a cool eyebrow at the word 'activities'. Tsk, it was more than something one would do when one was looking for a day outing. However, they were trying to be subtle after all. Hannibal put the tea down, before folding his hands together.]

So are you saying that I should, perhaps, be more open with my activities? As so to build more ... honesty and diplomacy? [He knew very well where the man was coming from, but he was not certain at why Legato was belaboring the point that Hannibal had already agreed to ... unless.] Legato, are you and your master up to something you need help in disgusing?