[voice; action]

[seriouslytwisted]

[voice]

[Exploring and ninja-ing around is turning up a whole lot of dead ends and questions with no answers, so now Raphael is going to try his last resort.

Conversing with strangers.

Making sure he has his voice only function on (pretending that little SNAFU with it in his earlier conversation didn't happen) he reluctantly addresses his fellow...strand-ees.]


Okay, seriously. How many of you people actually buy that "you are in the in-between" story?

[the mystic new-age voice for the quote helps set the atmosphere, yes it is necessary]

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[action]

[Before this post, Raphael will be swimming around in the Water Sector, trying to keep as hidden as possible but needing to surface to breathe and also sneak back up onto the docks occasionally when he can't cross sections in water. He's a stealthy little bugger, so the average Joe might miss him, but anybody with serious training or extra-sharp senses might find him.

...or you might catch him when he's losing his temper and angrily kicking over a barrel after talking to yet another tree-hugging native yokel, whatever.]

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[depicted]

[Oh hopeless turtle why do you remind him of a teenager?]

[(skills of Dorian Gray do not include ability to identify age of turtles)]

And I wish you all the luck in getting those answers and would be happy to hear what you find out. Who knows? If you interrogate her the right way, you may at least be able to report back to the rest of us what the Palace prisons look like.

[seriouslytwisted]

[That doubt predictably makes Raphael bristle because he is a teenager. A surly one.]

Oh, forgive me. I should be sitting around getting comfortable instead of actually finding a way out of here.

[depicted]

[Dorian's voice remains mild and indifferent.] Complacency's a bore, and I wasn't joking. You never know when you'll need to break out a palace. Best to learn how under a minor offence instead of one that has you on death row. [Go on, Raphael! Take one for the team.]

[seriouslytwisted]

Then get yourself arrested, wise guy. I'm not going to prison any time soon.

[Doesn't mean he's written off storming up to the palace. Just that he, at least, has no plans on being caught. ...whether or not that has any bearings on how caught he turns out to be is not important.]

[depicted]

Not really the sacrifice-for-the-cause sort of man. But best of luck. [He gives Raphael a cheerful salute.]

[Dorian is also a teenager.]