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[imjustpretty]

Who: Ray Kowalski, Ardent
What: Serious warden/inmate business is serious.
Where: The library.
When: After this conversation.
Warnings: Angry dwarfs?

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[deepdowndark]

Ardent is a little too cocky going to this meeting, as he can't think of a single reason why he's legitimately an inmate. There's possibly a lot he's missing here, but he's a little curious to what Ray is going to try and come up with. It better not be that the stupid humans sided with Bashfullsson. They couldn't have done that, Bashfullsson's ideas were just lies. The Cube was just lies.

He spots Ray and wanders over, pushing himself up onto a nearby chair and folding his arms. "I'd like to hear it, then."

He'd accepted already that this was an injustice, and that humans would lock him up for having done nothing, and that there was very little he could do about it right now. But knowing what they thought he'd done should be helpful. Or at least give him chance to express the injustice.

[imjustpretty]

Ray picks up on the cockiness and the smug challenge in the way Ardent folds his arms at him, and lets out a little internal sigh. This. Isn't going to be any fun at all.

"Before I do this, I'd really like to hear your take on this first." He watches Ardent closely, curious to see his reaction. "D'you think there's anything about yourself that might need redeeming?"

[deepdowndark]

Ardent gives him a long stare. He can't think of anything that wouldn't come from a misunderstanding of the Law, an over confident human assumption that they can judge how Dwarfs handle things.

"No. I don't." He gives him a confident stare, challenging him to say otherwise.

[imjustpretty]

"Nothing at all? C'mon, there's gotta be something." You are one extremely over-self-confident Dwarf, sir. "Like, I do this thing where I forget to put stuff back in the fridge. Small thing, sure, but my wife--I mean, ex-wife--she nearly took my head off about it, 'cause I kept doing it. Is there something like that, with you? Anything about yourself you think could use some work?"

Really, he just wants to know if Ardent will admit to having any mistakes at all. Because if he doesn't, that might be something that needs redeeming in and of itself.