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Nathaniel || John Mandrake ([personal profile] knew_anyway) wrote2011-12-28 12:45 pm

Thirteenth Summoning [Accidental Video] || Overworked and Underpaid

[The feed clicks on to show Nat in his study- but unlike his public addresses, he's not sitting calmly at his desk, or even looking at the camera. Instead, he has his back to the device, reaching up to get a book from his top shelf.

His study is nothing short of painfully organized chaos. Stacks of books and loose papers seem to reach the ceiling. His walls are covered with chalk marks, very few of which are English. He has Japanese characters, foreign words, and even a hieroglyph or two- and of course, lots and lots of Latin interspersed, with dark, angry lines connecting words together or crossing sentences out entirely.

It looks very much like he's lost it, especially as he opens the book he'd just gotten, turning slightly so his face is profile to the camera. He hasn't slept in days, his hair is messy from the times he's ran his fingers through it, his shirt is untucked, tie loosened.

With a negative mutter, Nathaniel snaps the book shut and turns to cross out another line of foreign writing, letting the book drop to the floor by his feet in frustration.

He continues working tirelessly, unaware that he'd being recorded, until the feed shuts off.]




[[ooc: SOOOO to anyone who can speak a foreign language, the words he has written are all regarding names- names of deities in that language's culture mostly, but also little scrawls on statistics and probabilities and things relating to alternate worlds, dimension hopping, and Other Places.

I am JUST returning from being internetless as well, so all of Nat's, Rome's, and Regulus' tags will be done shortly <3 <3]]

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Right. You really have learned nothing, have you?

[identity profile] knew-anyway.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
What are you talking about?

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Get out of that office and sleep. Go for a walk. Eat proper food.

[identity profile] knew-anyway.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
There will be time for that later.

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[The djinn just shakes his head, he cannot figure out what will get through to the boy. Not anymore.]

[identity profile] knew-anyway.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a long pause.]

...getting on alright?

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Thought you didn't have time for such things.

[identity profile] knew-anyway.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Shut up.

[He's trying to fix things.]

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Am I talking or shutting up? [pointed look]

[identity profile] knew-anyway.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
You're being a nuisance.

[DAMNIT BART.]

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
You didn't answer my question. [Damnit right back.]

[identity profile] knew-anyway.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm trying to be civil!

[AND HE'S FAILING A LOT.]

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you learn this kind of diplomacy in government?

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I did my bit by telling you to rest and eat.

[identity profile] knew-anyway.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wait what? He's just filed that bit under 'annoying things people tell me to do'.]

...yes, well.

[He huffs.]

Fine.

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[He raises his eyebrows expectantly as if to say 'hop to it, then']

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
How long have you been awake? [What he really means, privately, is 'how lax have Tibor and Faisal been and how much do I need to torture them into taking better care of you?']

[identity profile] knew-anyway.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think you have any right to ask.

[Which translates into 'definitely more than forty-eight hours, potentially approaching seventy-two'.]

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm probably the only one that will ask.

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Go to bed. I will guard the house this one time.

[identity profile] knew-anyway.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd rather not owe you a favor.

[identity profile] imakefootnotes.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[he just eyerolls.]