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There, in the back booth... see him?

The man falling asleep over 'The Kraken Wakes' by John Whydham?

That is Random. Come say hello, the book is good, but conversation is better.

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Raven laughs.

"Coyote often calls me batshit insane, so you may have something, there."

He tilts his head, still laughing softly.

"And you have a surprisingly good grasp of my nature from the little we have spoken. Logic does not serve you so poorly, I do not think."

"No, it serves me well," Holmes agrees. "It is the defining point of my character, I should say in fact." Without it, he would have little enough with which to recommend himself.

He draws in a breath, then lets it out with a puff of smoke.

"I would apologize for misjudging you, but that I had so little evidence with which to make any judgment at all," he says at length. Not that he's entertaining thoughts of going after Random just now, either. A breach of trust is still a breach, no matter to whom a secret has been told.

Raven shrugs.

"It is nothing. I am difficult to offend. There is no need for apology."

Then he laughs.

"We are very different creatures, you and I. Logic serves me but poorly."

"How so?" asks Holmes, eyes lighting, intrigued. "Can you possibly move more simply than straightforward, from one idea to the next?"

Such is the framework and machinery of his mind--all things should be reduced to the linear. Cause and effect.

"Not more simply, no. Only more easily. It is an odd thing, in truth."

Holmes makes a low sound in his throat, amused frustration. "Illogical, of course."

Very different creatures, indeed. And Random somewhere between the two of them, he supposes.

Raven grins.

"I have made it an art form."

"You have taken the benefit of millenia to develop it, indeed," Holmes replies with a narrow smirk. "To reach a perfect state of illogic," he adds, meditative. "Quite a contradiction in terms, but I do admire your dedication."

Raven shrugs.

"It is not the only thing I am dedicated to, certainly. I have unplumbed depths."

He laughs

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