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[deuceoftears]

Please

double-check

sometime.

[pharadyne]

Okay.

Double-check what? If he wants to know names, or if he knows you're on the list, or if he knows he can veto?

[deuceoftears]

Far be it from me to give you marching orders in your own relationship

but your priorities should definitely be 3, 1, 2

[pharadyne]

Double-check all of them?

[deuceoftears]

Well, if the answer to 1 is that he doesn't want to know names, then no, you'll skip 2. That's why it's prioritized that way.

[pharadyne]

Obviously. But it all seems an awful lot of extra discussion when we've already established it's fine.

[deuceoftears]

[Jedao switches to video just to make sure Norton sees This Face]

If you don't know for sure if he knows he can veto, then it's not sufficiently established.

[pharadyne]

[That is the face of a schoolmaster who can't believe Norton declared that Paradise Lost was written by Alexander Pope. The wordless "My soul withered in despair a little bit at what you just said. Try again." It makes Norton curl in on himself sheepishly.]

I'll go and...sufficiently establish that then.

[deuceoftears]

[Jedao gentles almost immediately at the sheepishness, satisfied that Norton has stopped wriggling long enough to take on the idea. And, purely because it's also his own natural idiom, he puts it into the language of espionage instead of, like, modern lingo or touchy feelings.]

Good.

You're the contact point. That means you need to have the right intel.

Cheers, darling.

[pharadyne]

[Thinking of it like an intelligence mission makes it feel ever so less awkward than thinking of it as arranging a talk about feelings.]

Ta, sweetheart.