[ It matters that Eliot tells him. True to prediction, there is nothing he can really do about it, or at least not with what he's got on hand. The place is the problem, the paradox is the problem, the whole situation.
But it matters that Eliot tells him.
He'll break every computer-oriented crime he can get his little digital hands on and create some new ones that world governments haven't even bothered to think about yet if it gets them closer to an answer. Would do, if this place turned out those kinds of tools. Hardison is determinedly pretending he believes that is 100% the case.
He softens. Snow is cold, Earth orbits a Sun, Alec Hardison softens with the ease of a paperback book someone dropped in a puddle. And if he happens to look a touch unsettled, he challenges anyone with brain cells to not be unsettled by a non-okay Eliot Spencer. ]
Okay. Wanna tell me about it?
[ Local genius offers to have emotional conversation in the cold-ass tundra, more at 11. ]
no subject
But it matters that Eliot tells him.
He'll break every computer-oriented crime he can get his little digital hands on and create some new ones that world governments haven't even bothered to think about yet if it gets them closer to an answer. Would do, if this place turned out those kinds of tools. Hardison is determinedly pretending he believes that is 100% the case.
He softens. Snow is cold, Earth orbits a Sun, Alec Hardison softens with the ease of a paperback book someone dropped in a puddle. And if he happens to look a touch unsettled, he challenges anyone with brain cells to not be unsettled by a non-okay Eliot Spencer. ]
Okay. Wanna tell me about it?
[ Local genius offers to have emotional conversation in the cold-ass tundra, more at 11. ]