INBOX: DUPLICITY

[intelligence]

Network ID: @Burnham

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ATTN: MICHAEL BURNHAM

[duplicitymods]

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DUPLICITY CITATION No. 19725 Violation: Tampering with Duplicity Network Fine: 3 Days Realignment Payments must be received within 30 calendar days, or debts will be handed over to the Remittance Facility.

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un: georgiou

[mirroremperor]

I have a proposal for you.

[intelligence]

Always an alarming combination of words coming from you.

Let's hear it.

[mirroremperor]

Come have dinner with me we'll chat.

[Read: This shouldn't be said over the network.]

Don't worry I didn't cook it. I have leftovers from when Pike was here the other night.

[intelligence]

The other night?

[mirroremperor]

You do remember we used to live together here right?

[intelligence]

When you lived together it was encouraged, even expected.

I didn't realize it had continued independently of that.

[mirroremperor]

Who knew making dinner could be so controversial

[intelligence]

Who called it a controversy? I'm merely taking an interest in my friend's life.

Correction: my friends' lives, plural.

un: lorca, 2/26 evening

[cryptofascist]

[ Highlight for full message, redacted save for the concluding order: ]

Falsely detained by DTF.
Communications restricted.
Maintain course.

2/26 evening, undelivered until 3/1

[intelligence]

Being "temporarily re-homed" to the Down Public Housing while contract under review.
Assuming correlation with your absence and redacted message.

Maintaining course.

3/1

[cryptofascist]

[ Of course they fucked with it. They better not have encouraged her to spend that time shopping around for another contract. Philippa doesn't need the assist. ]

Just another dog and pony show. And an incompetent one at that.

[intelligence]

They are at least as persistent as they are incompetent.

[ DTF failed to convince the city to reassign contracts this time. She has no expectation this will be their last attempt. ]

[cryptofascist]

[ He reads it in her voice, effortlessly picturing the dryness of her expression. Lorca doesn't need to see her every day. Not even every week. Having the choice whether or not to taken from him transformed the negligible distant into a searing ache. ]

What were conditions like for you?

[intelligence]

Typical of the Down. We were left to idle under the threat of being paired with native Dominants should our contracted partners fail review. It did not go over well.

You?

[cryptofascist]

Daily interrogations threatening death by tedium.
Shared luxury accommodations in an obvious attempt at entrapment.

If I were the Creator I'd be insulted.

[ But he presumably approved this so yet more proof that he can't be that smart. ]

[intelligence]

That we've been released would suggest he was at minimum unimpressed.

They'll win his favor sooner or later.

@lorca, text

[cryptofascist]

Have a drink with me tonight.

[intelligence]

What's the occasion?

the first way was so funny

[cryptofascist]

I think you know.

i was trying to give more than 1 word 🥲

[intelligence]

I think we'd be drinking for different reasons.

he read it as two ✌️

[cryptofascist]

[ too big for subject line ]

Don't diminish me.

...and he was right to do it

[intelligence]

Then don't ask me to be more vulnerable with you than you've been with me.

[cryptofascist]

[ He's being that with her now. He understands her defensiveness: This doesn't feel great. ]

You presume to know how I feel about her.

[intelligence]

You're welcome to correct me.