Death in High Places (5/??)
Sep. 7th, 2005 02:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsyth"Of course we talked. She was my ally, we worked together every day."
I crouched back down by the corpse, doing the best to ignore the keening the Servants of Law always emitted, and how it set the hair on the back of my neck on end. "Did you ever talk about anything besides work? Don't answer that. Do you know how her Succession works?"
Nomos wasted his glare on the back of my head for several seconds, then answered. "No. There's only been one Justice I've known."
"As far as anyone's known, I believe. She was among the eldest."
(Conversations go slow in 100 word chunks. Or maybe I just write too much dialogue.)
I crouched back down by the corpse, doing the best to ignore the keening the Servants of Law always emitted, and how it set the hair on the back of my neck on end. "Did you ever talk about anything besides work? Don't answer that. Do you know how her Succession works?"
Nomos wasted his glare on the back of my head for several seconds, then answered. "No. There's only been one Justice I've known."
"As far as anyone's known, I believe. She was among the eldest."
(Conversations go slow in 100 word chunks. Or maybe I just write too much dialogue.)
