[phone]

[3wayforjustice]

It's one thing after another in this wretched place, isn't it? Lies. Zombies. Insanity.

One would hope in these desperate, bizarre circumstances, we could rely on someone... but apparently that isn't even the truth, is it?

[After that bitter statement, the next is something of an aside, as he's putting the phone back down. Because leave it to Anders to be a cryptic jerk like that.]

Maker's breath, I wish I could drink.



[LATER -- as in, after the phonecall, he's just sort of sitting in the room he claimed as an office space of sorts, writing furiously on anything even remotely paper-like.]

[Disturb the cranky mage at your leisure.]

Comments

[thenewnancydrew]

Because I'm a Christian. It's what we do.

[3wayforjustice]

Drag people into your religion?

[Well. That sounds familiar.]

I suppose next, you'll say we should be grateful for your efforts?

[thenewnancydrew]

No! [ It comes out quickly, and she sounds alarmed. ] That's not what I'm doing. I'm witnessing. I'm not trying to force you into it. It doesn't work that way.

[3wayforjustice]

... You're what now?

[thenewnancydrew]

[ A pause. ] Um... witnessing?

[3wayforjustice]

... Meaning?

[thenewnancydrew]

I'm... telling people about God?

[3wayforjustice]

So wouldn't that be evangelizing, and not simply witnessing?

[thenewnancydrew]

Um, no. I'm not preaching the Bible to you or trying to convert you. I'm just telling you about God. The same as telling you about an old friend.

[3wayforjustice]

One I didn't ask to hear about.

[thenewnancydrew]

You didn't have to.

[3wayforjustice]

I beg to differ.

[thenewnancydrew]

I don't. It wouldn't be quite the same if you asked for it.

[3wayforjustice]

Asking would imply I was at all interested, though. And, since I didn't, I'm not.

[thenewnancydrew]

Weren't you the one who brought up relying on someone to begin with?

[3wayforjustice]

Yes. An actual person. Not some powerful spirit put on a pedestal.

[thenewnancydrew]

You never specified.

[3wayforjustice]

I wasn't aware I had to specify.

Right then, next time I want a real, existing friendship I'll be certain to say so. In exacting detail.

[thenewnancydrew]

God can be a real, existing friend.

I hope you find God, Sir. I really, really do.

[ And then she hangs up. ]