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[originallutece]

Rosalind Lutece

Doctor of physics, professor at Recollé University.

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[originallutece]

Ah.

[Um.]

No. Not Dr. Sutcliffe.

[There's a lot she can say, but she wants to see what his reaction will be before she says anything. Anger? Betrayal? Fear? She doesn't know if she could blame him for any of those.]

[frostythehitman]

[ The next text doesn't come for a good ten minutes. James needs to spend some time freaking out about, first off, him sending a text about the dismembered arm to someone other than Togusa or Grell.

But then he realizes that, even worse, this person already knew about it. So he needs a few minutes to freak out about that too. The amount of shit he's in has just gotten that much deeper. ]

Who told you?

[originallutece]

Dr. Sutcliffe.

[frostythehitman]

And who am I talking to right now?

[ because lmao he doesn't actually have Ros's phone number saved to his phone so this is all a mystery right now ]

[originallutece]

[james what the fuck what if you have a physics emergency who you gonna call]

Dr. Lutece.

[frostythehitman]

[ aw shit, it's someone he actually KNOWS. ]

Great. Just great. So you know all about it then, huh?

[originallutece]

I know you were sent an arm a while back. And I went over the arm in question, yes, but purely in a medical sense. I don't know anything more beyond that, however.

[frostythehitman]

YOU SAW IT?

oh my god why

TELL me you haven't told anyone else

[originallutece]

Of course I haven't.

[There's just a moment of hesitation, but--]

She showed me because she wanted a second opinion, and there's not many doctors with the app.

[That's not . . . actually strictly true, but oh well.]

[frostythehitman]

Aren't you a physicist? What does a physicist do with a giant lump of arm?

[originallutece]

More than a layman would. I'm a physicist, but that doesn't mean I haven't studied other kinds of sciences.

[frostythehitman]

Great. So I guess you know all about the lovely murder evidence Retrospec's trying to plant on me.

[originallutece]

Nothing's happened yet, though. Has it? Surely Togusa and the others on the police force will understand.

you asked for this icon, and so ye shall receive

[frostythehitman]

Well. Togusa does, anyway.

But that doesn't mean Retrospec didn't try to start shit.

jesus it's 2001 again

[originallutece]

It is a rather strange package to send someone.

[She wonders, though. She wouldn't put it past Retrospec to try and screw James over, but it seems a bit random. Surely there's some other meaning behind it-- but then again, he had said he remembered being in a war.]

You've not received anything else of that nature?

[frostythehitman]

...what do you mean by "that nature"?

[originallutece]

Gore, limbs, anything dangerous or suspect.

[frostythehitman]

[ well. he was gonna keep on being cagey but honestly, if she already knows about the arm, what's even the point in hiding the rest of it. ]

Yeah, they sent me a gun too. Along with bullets for it.

[originallutece]

Have you used it yet?

[frostythehitman]

No. I don't even know if it still works or not, it could be rusted shut for all I know. It's from like 1940 so it's pretty old.

[originallutece]

You might want to try. Simply for the sake of knowing; given how unpredictable this app is, more knowledge can't hurt.

[frostythehitman]

Are you INSANE? The gun could explode in my face and kill me if I just "try it"!

I need to strip it down to check all the parts first. I just don't remember how to.

[originallutece]

Watch your tone. If you disagree, all you have to do is say that.

[frostythehitman]

I'm not saying I disagree, I'm saying that's UNSAFE. Totally different.

[originallutece]

Surely there must be a guide to stripping it down online.