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°007 - from Mandrake's PCD

[John Mandrake comes onto the feed looking, well, cool. His hair is done in a much more fashionable style, his clothes are loose and un-tucked and he has an air of knowing just how awesome he is. He is lounging in a room that seems different to the kind he is usually seen in - as Bartimaeus has currently quit Whipstaff. Oh yes, Bartimaeus is currently in residence in his former master's body and also in a very bad mood with said former master.]

I realise that I have been rather the stick-in-the-mud recently... well, always, but I would like to open myself up to you all. I have no way with women, no real social skills to speak of and my feet smell terrible.

No-one is perfect, you see and I am finally coming to understand that also applies to myself.

In short, I, John Mandrake, am a bit of a prat. I just thought you should all know that.

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Nor am I, John Mandrake.

[You know, normally she'd feel bad about doubting someone.

But this is just a bit obvious.]

Everyone's bodies are switching right now. Who are you really?

John Mandrake, obviously.

[She's way too credulous; she almost just accepts it, except... This really isn't what she thinks of him as.]

Um... then... Just to be sure, while everything is like this...

What did we talk about the other day?

[Bart knows he is rumbled, so he doesn't even try]

My lack of cool?

Stop making trouble in his body, OK?

Hey, it'll probably do the kid good.

Why are you saying something like that?

He needs to loosen up and stop the annoying habit of trapping his friends in pentacles.

Eh? He trapped you? Why? [From what she's seen of him, he's hard to get to know, but a fairly fair and honest person. Were you getting into trouble, whoever-is-in-his-body?]

That's what he does.

But if he trapped you, he thinks you need to be stopped, isn't that so? So... what happened back in your world?

[Bart rolls Nat's eyes]

Long story short - magicians want power so they summon spirits like myself. Instead of being grateful for our slave service, they attack us with painful spells, send us on suicide missions and trap us in binding pentacles. All we want to do is be left in peace.

He made you do things like that? [Something isn't quite adding up. Note to self: Talk to Rei to find out what she knows about this later. As soon as possible.]

Many, many times.

But... he must have had some other reason... for what he was doing. Some goal he was trying to reach.

Revenge was his first reason. Noble enough for you?

[Definitely talking to Rei, first opportunity.]

Revenge... for what? [Because revenge still implies you did something, too.]

Someone making a fool of him, but then he does that pretty well himself. [he gets the inflection and what it implies]

I was the tool of revenge.

For him to want to go that far... something really bad must have happened.

Not really.

Then, what was it he wanted this revenge for?

Ask him. Should be funny to watch him go purplish as he tries to talk about it.

I will. [~~Just like she's already talking to Rei about it, when Rei posted outside the temple.~~]

I want to know what happened. I think... there's some kind of misunderstanding somewhere.

Nope. None.

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