It's Called "Telepathy"

[tastes_of_honey]

"If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
-- George Eliot, Middlemarch

Comments

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

She was using the grass growing thing as more of a metaphor, but sure.

It annoys me when people don't give me much credit for being as sane as I am when it's not easy.

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

"People annoy me in general. Besides, most of them don't realize that staying sane takes effiort."

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

That too. I have to make some allowances because it's not like we can kill everybody. We'd still need people to make stuff for us and be sex slaves.

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

"We could ship most of them off to another continent though. I hear Antarctica has lots of space."

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

They need some supervision though. Even the supervisors need some supervision. It's a shame you can't trust people to be competent.

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

"You can trust them to be incompetent though. You just pick some of the really useless ones to teach the rest how to be not stupid, and they should mostly all be dead before too long."

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

But you have to control the number that survive. I don't trust them not to kill too many off.

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

"I suppose. I guess I'll just reserve that as a penal colony then. That way it won't matter as much."

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

Sounds like too much work.

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

"That's why I've never really gone for world domination. There's really way too many details to deal with."

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

I agree. It would take a lot of the fun out of life.

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

"I'm just glad Crawford figured that out somewhere along the line."

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

Me too. If he still wanted to take over the world I'd have to help him and be his right-hand man throughout.

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. It's generally not boring to work for him." Nagi's current assignment is something of a fluke.

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

Which is one of the reasons I stick around.

Did Crawdad give you any idea how long you have to babysit the little bastard?

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

"Through the whole thing with the Academy. And I think it might be a while since he's currently agonizing about sending Balinese off to Germany or Vienna or whereever that other school is."

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

Ach, wah wah. What a crybaby. He's gonna send Yotan to Europe and break his team prostitute to pieces, and he knows it.

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

"He might not. There is that damn wish to consider." Nagi sighs. "I think that's part of the problem, and possibly the reason Crawford got so pissy over things."

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

I can see why Brad would be pissed, but it amuses the hell out of me.

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

Nagi nods. "I think that it's his top pick, but he can't do it because of the wish. There are other agents he can send. I mean, he is going to send Ken. Since Crawford had found a way for me to not work for Persia before the wish..." Nagi hates being surrounded by german speakers. It reminds him of places he would rather not be.

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

::It's Schu's native language, so....::

The wish happened a while ago, though. Brad's hasn't gotten an update of the reconfigured future yet?

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

Nagi likes his German. It's the rest of them he can live without. He hears german in a lot of his nightmares.

"I'm sure he has, but all he's told me is that it's my mess, so I have to fix it."

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

The man is way too tight-lipped.

[killwithmymind.livejournal.com]

"He's a dickhead." Cranky Nagi is cranky!

[tastes-of-honey.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't argue with you on that one! ::Would Nagi like a snuggle?::