[He use to be just fine blurting things out, but now.... He understands this technology a bit better perhaps.]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org I received what I believed to be a letter from the Queen, asking me to host a man in my estate. It was someone from this organization.
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org I would have preferred a written contract. Verbal agreements are too flimsy. Anyone can go back on their word without proof.
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org Did they trick you into joining?
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org Why? [It's a rhetorical asking really.] Don't you find that suspicious? If they already told you everything, why is a written contract so nonnegotiable? It doesn't make any sense.
[there are certain things worth learning about people. one of those things was knowing when a well-placed silence spoke louder than any words. Hinata liked to think he understood enough to know this was the perfect time for that.]
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[and so he accepts it as something agreeable in Ciel, and continues toward the real curiousity.]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
How's that?
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FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
I received what I believed to be a letter from the Queen, asking me to host a man in my estate. It was someone from this organization.
[So he got stuck here because of duty.]
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FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Did you ever see your recruiter face to face?
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Yes, why?
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I worried for a second they could recruit through letter
That'd be even worse, signing a yes and then suddenly getting poked and prodded by alien doctors
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I would have preferred a written contract. Verbal agreements are too flimsy. Anyone can go back on their word without proof.
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
Did they trick you into joining?
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No. They told me everything.
[let's move on, shall we.]
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Did anyone tell you what happened to the guy who kept badgering the instructors to see his contract?
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Slowly, his brows furrow. The way Hinata words it, he already knows it is probably bad. Curiosity gets the better of him.]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
What happened?
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FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
Some hours of torture, public enough so everybody knew not to try again.
One or two questions isn't bad but if you nose too far into a subject and they catch on, they crack down.
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Why? [It's a rhetorical asking really.] Don't you find that suspicious? If they already told you everything, why is a written contract so nonnegotiable? It doesn't make any sense.
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It's more intimidating to have a mystery, that's what I've been told
There's more power if you don't even know what rules you've got to find loopholes in
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
It's not fair, but we're so easy to replace, who would care?
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I want to talk to you later face to face.
[A short pause, then, as if in hindsight:]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
If you try to kiss me, I'll kill you.
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FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
So holding hands would be fine?
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We have already held hands, idiot.
[Wait, shit, he didn't mean to bring that instance up in this manner!!!]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
BEFORE YOU EVEN RESPOND KNOW THAT IS NOT WHAT I MEANT THIS IS SERIOUS HINATA [Not the hand-holding--]
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
THE CONVERSATION
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Oh Phantomhive, don't worry, you don't have to explain yourself! I get it
I think I'll frame that text
FROM: hinata.shouyou@cdc.org
And catch you later, definitely
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DONT YOU DARE
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
THAT ISNT WHAT I MEANT AT ALL
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
HINATA
FROM: phantomhive.ciel@cdc.org
ARE YOU LISTENING I AM NOT GOING TO HOLD YOUR HAND IN THAT WAY SO DONT EVEN THINK ABOUT TRYING IT
[His howl of frustration can probably heard across camp.]
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[and so, irritatingly, he fell silent.]