Jedao rolls his eyes at the literalist fussing. Really, if he were willing to kill Mikodez at all, he'd probably have done it by now just to prove it, or get it over with, or gently encourage him to shut up about everything doing to avoid it.
He goes very still, when Mikodez says it, just like last time. A paltry but necessary cover.
"Why -" The same question as last time - Cheris's time - but now, here, Jedao doesn't elaborate on the questions. He has other sources, for one, and doesn't need to play as cagey with his suspicions for another, his mind putting together the horror and the obvious implications. It wouldn't be in Kujen's interests to make a stronger leash for him if someone else could hold it, for one thing. So there would have been some reason it didn't work, not quite the way Kel Command wanted or needed it to. If there's more to it - he can start with the file.
'Thank you." Also quietly. He is glad he didn't hear this from Holden, or just stumbled on searching for pieces of a ransacked past, in as much as he's capable of feeling glad about anything right now.
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He goes very still, when Mikodez says it, just like last time. A paltry but necessary cover.
"Why -" The same question as last time - Cheris's time - but now, here, Jedao doesn't elaborate on the questions. He has other sources, for one, and doesn't need to play as cagey with his suspicions for another, his mind putting together the horror and the obvious implications. It wouldn't be in Kujen's interests to make a stronger leash for him if someone else could hold it, for one thing. So there would have been some reason it didn't work, not quite the way Kel Command wanted or needed it to. If there's more to it - he can start with the file.
'Thank you." Also quietly. He is glad he didn't hear this from Holden, or just stumbled on searching for pieces of a ransacked past, in as much as he's capable of feeling glad about anything right now.