♠ second dream | day 93 | video ♦

[plagiary]

[ There's only so much exploration a man can do before he either gets eaten by a mechanical bear, or uses up one of his own precious bullets by shooting himself. So when the feed starts he seems agitated, a poker chip being flipped up into the air by his free hand and then caught again. ]

So I've learnt a lot since I first arrived. I know we have clubs and town halls and all manner of ... ne'er do well people lurking on the horizon. I've seen wolves and heard about the sea monster and watched the lot of you panic like headless chickens the minute your beauty sleep was invaded. I've gathered enough information for a bloody lonely planet guide and yet -.

[ The poker chip goes into the air again, the gold edges catching on the evening light from the window behind him. ] And yet I haven't the faintest clue what you do for fun. I've been here twelve days - almost a fortnight - and the opportunity to crack a smile is so rare I feel we all require some form of narcotic. [ If Arthur were here he'd fit right in. Eames likes to imagine that by now he'd be wearing a bear skin suit and ordering him around. Perhaps he shouldn't think about Arthur and sumptuous fur, actually. That way danger lies. ]

Please tell me there's something you're all hiding. Even if it is narcotics.

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[enchangement]

None of you are subtle.

Not that Nemo the Second cares.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

Is there something we're meant to be subtle about?

[enchangement]

Nope!

Is there something I'm meant to be subtle about?

[recognize_an_opportunity]

Generally, accusing anyone of being gangsters is a... poor idea.

[enchangement]

To admit the existence of a thing does not indicate the accusation that one is a thing.

Brats are here.

See?

[recognize_an_opportunity]

I think that's just semantics -- in most cases, admitting the existence of a thing starts making people suspicious about said thing.

[enchangement]

She doth protest too much.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

[A sigh.]

I take your point, although apparently you don't take mine.

[enchangement]

Brats exist. Gangsters exist.

If brats exist and gangsters exist then one of us must be one or both?

No.

Binary is a false construction.

[ Conspiratorial whisper: ] You worry too much.

[recognize_an_opportunity]

[Somehow, despite the worry, he's chuckling.]

You make a reasonable argument. And believe me, I'm well aware that I worry too much.