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Hannibal Lecter
twisted and so polite
better than evil should be*]

Claudia comes in and makes a beeline for the Bar, dropping off a note there. "Can you give this to Charles next time he's in? And... isn't the Goth guy on Security?"

I'm sorry if you get inundated with these, but I don't know who else to tell.

Helena just mentioned that she talked to Hannibal Lecter here a while back. I don't know if you'd have the context for this, but there's more than one story about a guy with the same name in my world, and the common denominator is that he's pretty fucked up and eats people for dinner.

Not saying anything's happened here, I haven't even met the guy, but... I thought people should know, so they can keep an eye out. And if he's doing anything vaguely medical he probably shouldn't be.

Thanks,
Claudia

When the note disappears, she orders a Mountain Dew and stakes out a table, the better to distract herself with building a Tesla rifle.

*If you'd like to download or stream the source of the linktext, you can do so here (full lyrics here). One of Quinn's friends wrote it!

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Charles gets the note and frowns before searching out Claudia, there have been a lot of worries around Hannibal lately,

"Hello. I got your note."

"Hi. I know you're not actually official, but I didn't know who else to tell."

She did end up copying Teja in on the note; he's Security, if she remembers right, so that's at least someone with some authority to do something. But mostly, she needed to flail and make sure someone was on alert.

"I can pass the message onto Guppy, but it worries me. Lecter's been treating patients here. I've seen inside him mind once and warned Guppy that he shouldn't be a psychiatrist here but it wasn't enough. And now we don't know how much damage he might have done,"

He sighs and leans on the counter, this is going to be messy because Lecter has a sheen of respectability that gets trusted.

"...Oh, craptastic. I guess the good news there is Joshua has enough sense not to trust him." The movie that really made Hannibal's name prominent was out well before Joshua's side quest in shiny gold nonsense, so he'd know the name.

"But the bad news is, people did trust him, and he probably did less than no good."

"Yes, he seems respectable but off, he doesn't truly understand compassion or empathy. Its possible he's to blame for Javert disappearing but I don't know. This keeps getting more complicated."

"Javert disappeared?"

Javert was here in the first place?

"Sorry, yes, apparently that tipped Guppy off to the fact that perhaps Lecter's advice wasn't completely well meaning. How much contact did Helena have with him?"

"Oh, yeah, let the guy prone to gaslighting handle the epitome of unbending belief you're right. What could possibly go wrong?"

Claudia shrugs. "She said they only talked once - something about her being chased by a plushie STD microbe and them taking it out back and burning it. She called the conversation weird in hindsight, but that was it. I don't know if Joshua's bumped into him or not."

"We should ask him. He's someone who likes being seen and impressing people, I wasn't impressed so he decided I was boring and not as powerful as he'd been told. In a place like Milliways, I'm afraid he's found a large audience, anything we can learn of what's he's done would be good."

"Well, if he underestimated you it's his loss." And if he did do anything beyond talk to people, he's dug his own grave.

"I'll ask him, or you can if you happen to see him first. Either way, he has enough sense not to go to him in a professional capacity, so there's that."

Which is good. Joshua's fucked up enough on his own.

"I don't like performing tricks for people. Yes, Joshua does have that sense. How are things going otherwise at the Warehouse?"

There's only so much that can be done about Lecter until action is taken.

"Not too bad. Business as usual."

So, you know, Artie's still butthurt that Joshua and Helena are around. But Steve's settling in nicely, and Myka's back, which means Pete's cut out the lost-puppy act.

"Anything interesting come in lately or that I can do to help?"

The Warehouse strikes him as the kind of place that he'd like to understand as it works to make all who come into it safe.

"Other than where it's all interesting? Nothing that particularly stands out."

But if she thought Charles would be useful, Claudia would bring him in in a heartbeat. (Al, on the other hand, won't be so lucky.)

He smiles at her, he knows how that is,

"That's good, at least its not bad in anyway."