Trezlan was sipping tea in his lounge. He was waiting. He got a sense something was about to happen and this time he wanted to be prepared for it. So he sat on a comfy chair, a recent news story from a local colony overthrowing spider oppressors sitting on a data pad near him. SiC was there too, though it felt Trezlan was overreacting to things as he tended to do. In the past Trezlan had set up a watch like this four times and nothing happened. SiC and the rest of the AI's worried Trezlan was losing his mind again. Eventually around the time Trezlan was wondering if he was losing his mind Hanlon appeared.
"Waiting for me now?"
"I figured you'd come calling, soon as I saw the news about the spiders." Hanlon was taken a back, Trezlan had never shown long term planning, let alone some kind of knowledge outside of his base instincts. This was a new phase for him.
"Why the spiders?" Trezlan frowned.
"Don't treat me like an idiot, The Spider God and you have been working on the outside for a while, and now he got caught by the Fire God."
"What have you been reading Trezlan?" Trezlan pointed to the bottom of his cup.
"The tea leaves." Hanlon almost lost sight of what he came there for, so taken aback by Trezlan's revelation about knowing about his pact with the spiders.
"So you know the spider god, good we're on the same page, what does it know of the darkness." Now Trezlan smiled again, Hanlon was coming to him for advice, he could almost laugh.
"SiC, please get me the data we have on this."
"Right away sir."
"You knew I was coming and you had compiled what I was after? What are you, and what have you done with Trezlan?"
"You wound me Hanlon." But Trezlan was happy to have the Death God so caught off guard. It almost made him want to prepare more often, but seeing how long all this took to set up, that was unlikely.
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