{"id":2373,"date":"2011-01-28T14:12:15","date_gmt":"2011-01-28T14:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatebook.eternalevil.com\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2014-01-07T19:19:02","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:19:02","slug":"crash-and-burn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatebook.eternalevil.com\/?p=2373","title":{"rendered":"Crash and Burn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody is flawed. Which is a good thing, because it also means there&#8217;s usually one way or another to exploit just that. Also, with flaws come other merits, which, in turn, can be made use of as well. Not much of a surprise to people with some basic intelligence.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Me? I&#8217;ve got several. Everything comes at a price. I reckon that goes for geniuses as well. One being sound. It&#8217;s natural for someone who lost an eye or two to compensate the loss with the remaining senses. Usually that&#8217;d be hearing. I make no exception in this. The result? Loud noises hurt. A lot. And yesterday the gods of loud noise obviously had it in for me. Meh!<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand I wasn&#8217;t the only one who suffered that night. For one thing, Alessandro seemed somewhat off&#8230; At the beginning of the evening he barely spoke a word with me, which in itself is rare. He also reached for my hand to say hi. The way he did it though is unsettling. Then again, if I had upset him he would have told me. And why wouldn&#8217;t he? He knows I need his support most of all, which gives him perfectly good leverage over me.<\/p>\n<p>Freddy was there as well. Hadn&#8217;t seen him for over a month. He was a bit annoyed about not being informed about the near masquerade breaches. Then again&#8230; Why would I upset him when he&#8217;s in some far-off country anyway? It&#8217;s not like he could have helped in the matter. So why bother him with something like that. Doesn&#8217;t make sense and is very, very inefficient.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of inefficiency&#8230; Sanders clearly takes lead in that field. She so has her priorities in the wrong order! Not being able to answer your letters that deal with a very urgent matter and you&#8217;re telling me that you had something even more urgent on your plate? Something I haven&#8217;t heard of, that&#8217;s for sure. Since I haven&#8217;t it can&#8217;t be that masquerade-breachy. No point in working closely together with her.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is Masha. She draws Thomas out of his quiet little corner. Jason is trying to establish good contact with her. I&#8217;ll do the same with Thomas. Her? Too much of a comedian to be an easy target or taken lightly.<\/p>\n<p>The redeeming factor of the night was Jason, somehow. I guess I remain as weary towards his smiles as he is to mine. Doesn&#8217;t change the fact that he is good company and that &#8211; up to now &#8211; he gave me no apparent reason to distrust him. The poor fellow got his hand broken right when he came up from the parking lot. J.B. said hi in a somewhat overenthusiastic manner. So we both had a very painful evening. The girls afterwards helped though.<\/p>\n<p>On to Clan Malkav. Alix was present again. And I swear to god one night she&#8217;s going to be the final straw. She does drive me mad! And Simon? Couldn&#8217;t even get rid of her. Says that someone pulled rank on him. So now we&#8217;ll be blessed with her presence again while he&#8217;s trying to get some guy back who&#8217;s in his debt. Wegener by name. For that purpose he&#8217;s looking for some elder of our clan.<\/p>\n<p>Still have to talk to Baumgartner. Have to delay that till next week though. And I&#8217;ve got to finish the other two articles. Damn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody is flawed. 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