#V02. DESPITE AS AN ADJECTIVE { older. }

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@thegothfiles ( sarah good. )

he’s done just about everything traditional, all the work that he likes, that keeps him out of anything that might be adverse. this includes: looking through records. talking to people generally, learning the lay of the land. the problem is that the town of danvers, massachusetts is remarkably normal. it’s just that a lot of people die there. and he’s from a place where people were dying over things fairly often, so it’s not like he sees much that he deems remarkable.

nevertheless, he’s being paid to do a thorough job.

and a thorough job includes the manor on the hill, looming over the town like it’s about to try and do something violent to it.

the owner’s got a nice garden, though. he’ll give it that. expansive. tended to. someone cares rather a lot about all this. in the end, is it right, to be suspicious just because of the environment? maybe. maybe not. fact is, though, he still shoves his hands in his pockets and pauses at the edge of the property. there’s  a woman there, concerned with some of her plants. probably the owner. ❝ put a lot of effort into all this, ❞ he calls out, one hand gesturing vaguely towards the look of the place in general, leaning there against the gate. 

the last thing he wants to do is be accused of trespassing. he does trespass often, but not openly like this. so he lingers instead.

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@herlevel​

❛❛ if there’s a chance of trouble, ❞ brendan begins, and his tone implies that he thinks there’s probably going to be trouble, like it’s an inevitability. ❛❛ or, moreover, if you know there’s going to be trouble, that’s something i’d like to know ahead of time. i can handle being unprepared but if some mug’s going to go so far as to show up wearing iron and already hot around the collar, that can go badly for either of us. ❞