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Sometimes Kaiser had to marvel at Kodee's stories - not the stories themselves, per se (they were often interesting, just sometimes a little too lengthy for Kaiser to stay with him from start to finish), but the sheer volume of words he could pour forth in a matter of minutes, the narratives he could paint. Kaiser had always known his friend was like that, ever since their early friendship days, when Kodee talked with such gusto and intensity that Kaiser, still working on his grasp of the English language, missed most of what he said. And yet, still now he marvelled. Privately.
Kaiser himself was of the six-word-story variety, usually. A running joke between him and Candela which wasn't even that much of a joke, at least with his spoken anecdotes. When he wrote, the words flowed much more freely, or they had, for a while. At the moment he struggled even to write letters; there was one he'd been working on for Malachi Trent for several weeks now, though admittedly that was always going to be a difficult one, given he'd been putting it off for several years, and now had serious doubts about sending it at all.
Sinking into one of the soft chairs with exactly the right amount of squish to it, Kaiser leaned back against the cushions but still found himself totally unable to relax. Any danger of drifting off mid-conversation (he'd not slept a wink the night before; shocking, yes) suddenly vanished.
"I'm sure a court assassination scare was exactly what the Senior Undersecretary was hoping for." Asking Kodee follow-up questions could be dangerous, depending on if he got on a tangent, and exactly what kind, but Kaiser did like to show he was listening. He doubted it made up for all the times he'd accidentally spaced all the way out on him, but still. There was an attempt. "Did you get your quill back in the end?"
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