KOBALT: Hear me and heed my words now, îmbecîle. Cease dîsgracing my eyes wîth your dry-hatched conduct. Î'll not entertaîn you any longer.
KOBALT: Î'll do as Î should have done hours ago, and înstead entertaîn myself.
[Kobalt single-handedly lifts one of the large spears out of the display on his wall. His muscles ripple underneath his turtleneck sweater.]
KOBALT: Î wîll allow you a fîve second head start.
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??????: --and I do not do appearances on "internet videos".×⚟ ⌖) And don't test me by even daring to mention a fuc- a follower count.×⚟ ⌖) I am an officer of the great and righteous law of the empire.×⚟ I work in the name of honoring whatever fearsome grace Her Imperious Condescension would bother to touch our small lives with. ⌖) I'll have to have a word with those slackoffs out there if they think-
[You hand her the FORMAL LETTER.]
??????: ⌖) Well. You should have mentioned that you had an official waiver. ×⚟ ⌖) What does this say...? ×⚟
??????: ⌖) Yes, you have my permission to record. ×⚟ ⌖) Request for a statement on-
??????: ⌖) About who? ×⚟ ⌖) I don't even recognize this name. ×⚟ ⌖) Dyllan! ×⚟
[A voice calls back from the other room:]
??????: ⌖) Do I know a "Lividu"? Kobalt? ×⚟
[There is a loud choking sound, followed by coughing.]
DYLLAN: I- [cough] sorry. Yeah- uh, yes. Yes, I know that name.
??????: ⌖) Dyllan, pull yourself together. ×⚟ ⌖) This kind of conduct is unacceptable in the office environment, let alone in front of a guest. ×⚟
DYLLAN: Yes, of course, Acquisitor Emelin. My apologies. Anyways- I have the file for you here.
[Dyllan drops a thick file on the desk. It is heavy enough to rattle the surface.]
EMELIN: ⌖) Dyllan, what the hell is this? ×⚟
DYLLAN: This is your file on Kobalt Lividu, Acquisitor.
EMELIN: ⌖) I am not aware of the contents of this file, Dyllan. ×⚟
DYLLAN: I... ahem. As you can see, I have received a number of missives from this troll over the last sweep and a half or so. You were alerted of the first, the second, the fifth, and the sixth. After four alerts, you wisely counseled that I should not attempt to alert you again about a matter so tedious and repetitive, and I recall your specification that you would rip the next blue-
EMELIN: ⌖) Unimportant. Move on. ×⚟
DYLLAN: Of course, it is our policy to keep a record of any contact by parties who show discrete interest in a ranking member of our organization. As such, this file contains each letter that this troll has addressed to you, additional photocopies for our records and for redundancy, printouts of each e-mail received to and sent from this office concerning this individual, transcriptions of each palmhusk conversation-
EMELIN: ⌖) Enough. I get the picture. ×⚟
EMELIN: ⌖) I'll give you my statement now. ×⚟ ⌖) Statement: I do not care about you. ×⚟ ⌖) You are a nuisance. ×⚟ ⌖) I'm not going to fuck you. ×⚟
EMELIN: ⌖) Now get out of my office. ×⚟