March 5th, 2019
5 Mar 2019 · page 879 of 1306
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Cast: Vincent Knott, Will Sharpe
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Finding common grounds
Will fills space like a cat, just flowing as a liquid.
Aw, he's definitely not okay. Now I wonder if his trust in Flack is really only because he's been sharpened or if she actually earned a little bit of it the old-fashioned way.
Calling it now: Flack is awesome, wonderful, warm and fuzzy, and it's one of her other students behind all the evil mind-control.
I disagree, but your prediction has been noted. :)
Will's advice here doesn't seem likely to help Knotty get up the nerve to talk to his dad, unfortunately. From what we've seen, Mr. Knott senior really is one of those "extremely rare people", even if he hasn't picked up on just how much the family business upsets his son, and Vincent might take "you should probably hang onto them" to mean that he should keep quiet so that things between them stay as they are.
Yeah, but just after that Will said about "exactly one person who hasn't lied to me", and it might be taken as disapproval of lying in general. (Vincent may not lie to his father per se, but he certainly deceives him.)
And Vincent has just admitted that he was lying to Will, even if he hasn’t explained yet what the lie was.
If Will gives him a chance to explain, maybe that'll help restore his faith? Right now he thinks Vincent is a lawyer obligated to help him no matter what he thinks of him, but if he knew Vincent was really the hangman who honestly believes in him...
Thinking on it, regardless of Vincent’s profession, he probably would have gotten what he wanted hd he just let Sharpe go free. Either it’s a mistrial or something that probably wouldn’t impact his career much or he doesn’t have to execute anyone in the morning. The fact that Vincent is still here really matters more than what his job is.
Vincent really wants this chance to be a proper lawyer for the first time, though. He might not get another chance if he'd let Will go free, and since Will professed his innocence, Vincent thinks (especially at this point in the story) that it's true, and he'll be able to prove it. He probably wants to prove to his dad that he would do well as a lawyer in case his dad's skeptical when he tells him what he wants to do. Plus, if he'd let Will go free, Will would probably have been caught (considering the number of people who seem to have been Sharpened and still can be) and Vincent or someone else would still have to hang him.
There's the matter of the missing paper, too. Even if Vincent thought Will was guilty, it probably wouldn't weigh well on his conscious to leave such a dangerous theory out and about, and he seemed willing to look for it on his own before Will pointed out that he'd be the best guide.
I am picturing a thousand Catholic mothers slow-clapping at the level of guilt Sharpe just induced.
oof that hurts
"...should probably //hang// onto them..."
I see what you did there, Kate...
This page is SO worth waiting for. On the surface they're talking about Sharpe's situation, but every word Knott says is fraught with his own dilemma. Well done!
"I know exactly one person who hasn't lied to me..." That's why Knotty had to blurt out on the previous page that he had been lying -- to allow Sharpe to say this, here.
Ugghh ppl who pretend they don’t care and act arrogant and self-aggrandising to hide the fact that they do care and someone they loved thought they weren’t worth squat are my One True Weakness™️
Tl;dr Will Sharpe is magic Tony Stark and I love him
Now, Will and Verity have even more common than it seemed before. :) Of course, Verity's situation wasn't so bad, in more than one way.
I suspect that the only one willing to say anything good about our Sharpe here is Will, and, lest he fall into losing a low self esteem contest with Ben, he has been taking up the slack.
Or he thought cursing himself with Pride was a good idea.
Wonder if all this started because Flack experimented with the procedure on a certain student with trust issues.
All very meaningful guys, but are you sure a grill above a room full of people is a good place to be having this conversation when you're supposed to be trying to escape?
Maybe they are worried scrambling through the ducts in that room would make more noise than staying still and talking? (We can infer from Kate's formatting that they aren't whispering, but they could be talking quietly.)
(Although looking at yesterday's page they've apparently already scrambled halfway through the room without alerting them, so maybe not.)
I suspect the drunken students are making so much noise a herd of Wildebeest and Harriet Barber could march through the ventilation shaft and they still wouldn't notice.
There's four of them. One is asleep, and the other three were only talking, not celebrating wildly in song, dance, and riotous living, so... no, I don't think that works, much though I'd like it to.
It's an ancient magical university with a lot of history. It's possible that some time ago, for reasons that would probably make a great fanfic (I'd love if you'd write it!), a wizard turned the University's duct system into a set of secret passages with one-way sound insulation. Or maybe it was built that way intentionally from the beginning! In any case, it's not a stretch to assume magic is involved.
This may or may not be common knowledge amongst current students. Sharpe probably knows, and maybe that group down there does too, but they are talking unguardedly because they have no particular reason to expect someone to be listening.
I've lived in a Hall of Residence. You would be amazed how much noise 4 students can make at 2 am, even if one of them is unconscious.
But your idea is better, and it would make a fun fanfic. Why don't you write it?
Come to think of it, a retrofit would be just about physically impossible. It has to have been constructed that way from the beginning.
So when was Widdershins University built? Why? Who was the architect? Was their client... royalty?
Fingers poised over the keyboard... but it's not my place to invent the story...
Go ahead if you want to -- my creative writing days are done, but I've seen your fanfic and would love to see what you could do with this!
Hm, but I can't post it here, becasue Ms Ashwin would see it.
I wonder if someone Flacked Flack
How can you be so sure she's being honest with you when you can't even tell you're lying to yourself, Will?
He's not, it seems to me.
He's lying to everybody else, yeah.
But perhaps just now he's sincere with Vince.