[026] Audio - private to Milo Thatch
[The comm clicks on-- audio only. Helga isn't going to risk looking Milo in the eye doing this, even over video screens.]
Mr. Thatch.
I need you to inform the headmaster that I will be absent for some time. Perhaps the rest of the staff too. I don't know when I'll return, but it will be as soon as possible. I would tell himself, but I don't want to waste time.
[A pause, but she isn't waiting for Milo to reply. Instead, she takes a breath.]
I'm going after Rourke.
[Then, she turns off the device without waiting to hear if Milo replied, setting it down on the nightstand. She only turns back to the strangeling-- which hasn't moved, hasn't blinked, she'd guess-- and takes the page of the Shepherd's Journal it is offering.]
Mr. Thatch.
I need you to inform the headmaster that I will be absent for some time. Perhaps the rest of the staff too. I don't know when I'll return, but it will be as soon as possible. I would tell himself, but I don't want to waste time.
[A pause, but she isn't waiting for Milo to reply. Instead, she takes a breath.]
I'm going after Rourke.
[Then, she turns off the device without waiting to hear if Milo replied, setting it down on the nightstand. She only turns back to the strangeling-- which hasn't moved, hasn't blinked, she'd guess-- and takes the page of the Shepherd's Journal it is offering.]