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Skulduggery Pleasant

Cabin 117 - 6:39 PM

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[light_mischief]

Likewise. As far as we know now? It's power. [he's questioned before if it could be as simple as taking and immediately divesting ownership of the Captain, but he doesn't know enough about the binding magic involved. the risk is too great to entertain the thought.] It was an explosion the first time, but one that hasn't been replicated.

[the admission in turn helps restructure the mental file Skulduggery has of Fever, the conversation as a whole providing a different light to read it by. their meeting would have likely gone better under better circumstances, as proven by the way this one's already gone.]

It looks like we've got two things in common, then. Seems to be difficult to find a solid antagonist on this blasted ship these days... [his tone makes that clear it's a joke, even if it's kinda true]

[abhorrently]

We could always still fight where other people can see and give you a public enemy who's determined to break you into two hundred and six parts.

[you know, giving him a nemesis on the clock. let his allies have someone they want to destroy - it's been a while since she walked into a place and was hated on principle. it'd be almost familiar.]

If it's power, though? I mean, brute forcing your way through isn't a bad plan, it's just not as though there's a large energy source to tap just hanging around or notes we could reverse engineer into a counterspell. Or some way to disrupt magic via external interference...

[blocking the connection just long enough to have him wiggle out or something. but the man's been around for a long time, she's probably just throwing out thoughts he already has mulled over.]

Call me crazy, but might it be possible to twist the spell so that he's his own master? Unless there's some stipulation that the one binding and the one bound can't be the same person, or it'll make him explode, or something. Which is bad.