IC Contact, Part 2

[mentis_reae]

If you have some sort of pressing need, leave a message, along with your name and number. I will receive this message. I will call you back. There is absolutely no need to call me again; repeated calls, in point of fact, will dissuade me from getting back in contact with you at all. I would request that you attempt to keep it brief, so as to

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phonecall; backdated to last night

[atrumcanis]

[Ring, ring, ring....]

[mentis_reae]

[He answers on the fourth ring.]

Yes...Hello?

[atrumcanis]

It's Sirius.

What are you going to do?

[mentis_reae]

I, ah....Yes. I am, naturally, going to attempt to help Sam.

[atrumcanis]

Yeah, but how. It's AGI, so--are they going to sell him off?

[mentis_reae]

I don't know. I'm...trying to find that out.

[atrumcanis]

[Right. A short pause.]

D'you need any help?

[mentis_reae]

I...Most likely, but...Frankly, I do not even know how to direct you.

[atrumcanis]

Oh.

[A pause. Edgeworth not knowing what to do is a bit of a foreign concept.]

What did you do when they took me and Jack in?

[mentis_reae]

I asked Nara.

[atrumcanis]

Shit.

There's no one else? He was the only one connected with AGI at all?

[mentis_reae]

There's no one else I trust. [A slight hesitation, and then he corrects that nuance:] There is no one I trust.

[atrumcanis]

Well-- right, but if it's AGI, they'll sell him off. That's what they do. So you can buy him back, whether or not you have a man inside AGI.

[mentis_reae]

[A slight breath, and then a nod.]

That much is true. Once the auction is announced, I can send someone...I doubt they'll let me in again, but they do not know everyone who associates with me.

[atrumcanis]

I can do disguises, if you like.

[mentis_reae]

...At this point, should you not just list what you cannot do?