1.1.01.01.031: vulgar mispronunciations.

[needshumility]

Uh...

My item seems to be... malfunctioning?

I've acquired someone else's inmate. And lost Victor.

How... Was I doing a bad job? I wasn't doing a bad job. I wasn't complacent or...

Munsell in a canoe, what is this?

[Private to Sveta]

Petronilla's your inmate, right?

She seems to be on my item.

...What should I do? I don't think I've ever talked to her before.

[Private to Petronilla]

Hello! I'm Eddie Russett, and I'm not quite sure what's happened. I think it's an accident, as I definitely don't have your file or anything, but you seem to be my inmate.

Or at least, seem to be on my item. If you need anything, ask... actually, perhaps we could meet. Perhaps we should.

[Private to Victor]

I don't know what's going off, but keep in touch.

[Private to Jane]

Ugh, this makes no sense.

I just want to get Limed tonight. Is that bad?

Comments

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Look after yourself. I'll send Mr Slater in your direction if I see him.

Re: Private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

And Mr. Spinola as well, perhaps.

I just can't believe I failed him.

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Me neither. I don't know what I've done wrong.

Narvin thinks it's a joke. It's not a very funny one.

Re: Private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I was a bit sharp with him last night, but I don't think I was out of line in being so...

It isn't funny at all.

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

And I... Some of the doctors seem to think I'm making him suffer or patronising him and that's not how it is at all, I just want him to be safe and...

I thought I was doing a good job, though. He was getting better about the way he talked to people and he was even thinking about his creature and how...

Oh, I don't know.

Re: Private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

He has a creature? Is it a monkey?

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

...No. It's a bit more complicated than...

Maybe it's the privacy thing

I'm not sure I should be sharing that, actually.

Now I wish I could talk to him about and... oh, this is awkward.

Re: Private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

A complicated...private monkey...

It's terribly awkward.

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

It's not a monkey. He made it. That's... really the most I should say.

I think.

Maybe. He's not even my inmate any more.

Re: Private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

No, it's quite good of you to think of him.

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

I hope I get him back.

Re: Private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I did feel Mr. Spinola and I made a good team, but if I truly wasn't helping him...

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Perhaps we ought to look at where we could do better, then we might get them back. Maybe that's the idea.

Re: Private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I don't know that that's particularly kind to our new assignments.

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

...point.

It's not that I want rid of her, I'm just used to Victor and really want to help him and...

Maybe the idea is to encourage us to treat inmates equally.

Re: Private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I had thought I had been.

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sure you have, George!

But maybe it's to make everyone think that... well, any inmate could be my inmate, and maybe I should treat them all like I do him.

Not that you've done otherwise, I just imagine it might be the general message.

Re: Private

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I see. That's not a bad theory.

Re: Private

[needshumility.livejournal.com]

It's the best one I can think of.