In Milliways, the front door opens.
"I have three weeks to trial should I just get a dictionary and play "is the word you want in the first half of this sheaf of pages" for the next couple days -"
Well she will pull up an online dictionary and then quickly switch to the thousand most common English words because this'll otherwise be ridiculous and then - "okay, go -"
The thousand most common English words are fairly inadequate to this task and they still take forever to get through, but he persists through expressing: he wouldn't do that something is not safe and very wrong i need to talk very soon.
don't know
...Cam goes looking for Theodore's volunteer email at the parks he works for. Waves the cursor around it. he will guess better
"I was going to ask what the fuck was going on but that seems like a super useless thing to ask someone who can't talk. Uh. Can you use magic or does the binding prevent that -"
Over she comes.
"Do you know where the Elves are."
She starts crying.
"- okay, no Elves, got it. Write for more -"
This is clearly underestimating the gravity of the situation. He makes a pleading gesture at the fairy.
" - I took a summons. Task was to watch the dragons but then they asked if I'd go to Ganymede, tell two people here - two Elves here - to come back, their shift was up, their replacements would be over soon. And then this guy did a floaty thing? And I did the task but I was sort of out of it and then on the way back I just. Stopped? And left them there - until they died - and then the summoner dismissed me - I didn't mean to do it I think it was the Hazel mind-control thing -"
" - I don't know why he'd have done that."
"He said that too," she says a bit shrilly, "which doesn't help me..."
"Yeah don't worry about it the GCP knows about Hazel I bet you'll get off. Okay. Evil Timothy, possibly evil other people which is I assume why we're not just writing whichever of Timothy's Elf alts conjure their mail and saying 'fix this', but they don't have a general-purpose way of evilifying people because they didn't evilify you -"