start again in the month of may

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1 // "office hours" // mid-may // open to hillingdon

Arthur never thought he'd be in a position where he felt obligated to defend Sylvia Redbright from media slander. It's not even like he has to campaign for her, but if he managed to get cornered into a conversation about it, she is the lesser of two evils and still one of the biggest pieces on the board when it comes to dismantling Daybreak. He thinks it was a good move not to remain neutral like they have in the past, but it still manages to bug him.

Either way he's spending more time at Hillingdon House lately, realizing that his sprawling collection of research is too much to keep at his apartment. He's taken over one of the smaller rooms and sometimes he just sits there staring at a wall plastered with news articles and photocopied pages of old arcane books. He's still around to help give the hunters a bit of structure when and if they need it but mostly he's obsessing over the Daybreak problem and what exactly he can even do about it from his position.

Still, he'll try not to be too disgruntled if he gets interrupted from his long bouts of silence interspersed with cliche Edith Piaf "thinking music." His door is open, after all.

2 // he's still a hunter // may // open to all

The guy still has to eat, which means he's still taking bounties when he can get them. Islington shaping up has been a bit bad for business but it's good for humans in general, so he tries not to complain, but this does mean that he's taking a lot of low energy reconnaissance jobs instead of the more exciting ones he's used to. That means a lot of time at coffee shops and diners staking out offices and homes and various other places that are boring to watch. Clearly he needs a distraction.

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[moralabsolutism]

Rorschach walks over to the desk. It's moments like this he wishes he could still slam his fist down for emphasis. "You want information? I'll get you information." Quite a long speech for the laconic ghost. He usually only said about three words at any given time.

He's quite serious about the offer to help. Aside from salt and running water, there's not much that can keep him out of anywhere he wants to get to. It makes him the perfect spy.

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"Without getting caught?"

He doesn't sound impatient, not yet. Just a little tired of having the same thoughts and conversations over and over again. "Even if witches aren't great at sniffing out ghosts, they have fae that they could be using as watchdogs."

[moralabsolutism]

"Yes." Rorschach's gone this long in his unlife without ending up getting stuck in the wrong situations he couldn't get out of.

He waves away the concern regarding fae. "Usually don't notice ghosts unless they're hungry." And any of them who tried to chow down on Rorschach was going to find he was a hell of a lot harder to take down than he initially looked.