#schemer's table

"I will never not be useful. Never."

"Because I will find a way to always be useful."

And Murray heard that and thought it was naivety, a slow death through assimilation, like he didn't know what he was saying. But she doesn't get that he's been in that pot of hot water for most of his life. And when it does get too hot, from his vantage point in the pot, he manages to turn the heat back down. For a time. Jumping out would save himself but would do nothing for everyone else in the pot. It's possible the analogy got away from me just as much as it did from Murray and Azune.

Anyway i'm getting more excited for Azune at the Schemer's table the more I think about it. The way he described the situation and what they have to do accurately, bluntly- it felt so sudden, but in hindsight it was thrummung under the surface throughout the whole overture.

I wonder if there was already something on the paper that was invisible and specific to Bolaire, and Thjazi labelled it with his name so as not to lose track of it, before the letter to Murray was ever written. Murray did only roll a 14 arcana when checking it out, so she could have missed something magical let alone something mundane like invisible ink