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✆CHANNEL FREQUENCY: 319.03058
DESCRIPTION: Don't ask her about the significance of the number of her frequency. It's something about the production code of her favorite episode of CPH and some other significant numbers from that show, who even knows...

✉MAIL BOX LOCATION: Mailbox is on her door, it's shaped like a chicken???
DESCRIPTION: She doesn't really see the point of correspondence by mail. You're better off hitting up her radio or finding her in person if it's something important.

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[whattaprick]

Strange said Ignatius was looking for her when they ran into him.

Since you’re her best friend, I was wondering if you had any idea why.

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[Peridot's mind is racing away with this new information. She hates that her first thought is that Lapis may have turned around and done something stupid, even after that stressful chat they had in the library.]

I... I don't know, I... You're absolutely sure he was looking for Lapis?

[She sounds faint.]

[whattaprick]

Strange isn’t sure he can trust his memory on account of the whole dying and being tortured thing, so we’re asking other people who were there what they remember.

Maybe it doesn’t matter anymore. But I want to know.

[periphrasing]

I don't think Lapis even knows who Ignatius is. And even if she did, she'd never try to strike a deal with him, we--

[Pause.]

She knows how how dangerous the fae are.

[whattaprick]

If she didn’t before, she does now.

But I want to know for sure what happened to make Ignatius think that she’d be willing to desert the Carnival.

[periphrasing]

[She growls:] You and me both. It's not exactly a secret that she doesn't love it here but we've talked about this together at length. She would never do something that dumb just to try and get out of her contract here.

[whattaprick]

Would she do something that dumb to protect Steven or you?

[periphrasing]

[And more aggressively now:] No, she wouldn't, because I've already talked to her about how doing something like that wouldn't actually do anyone any good at all!

[whattaprick]

[ There’s a pause as he digests this. Then — ]

You said you talked to her. You didn’t actually say she agreed.

[ Lambert is familiar with this sort of tactic, as it’s one he employs! ]

Look, I’m not accusing her of anything. Would she even recognize any of the fae if she ran into them out here? If she ran into one of them, and thought they were just another part of the books ... you weren’t sure the Nightshade you ran into was real, either.

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[She did agree, but before Peridot decides it's not worth insisting he understand that. She just keeps staring at her radio while she listens, with a sour looking frown that Lambert can't see.]

Well the Nightshade I ran into was definitely real, considering how effectively she managed to destroy that book she and Frost were arguing over. Um--

[It's a two-prong realization that hits her next. First: Lambert isn't talking about the pixie fight incident. Second: She has just figured out how Ignatius might have known about Lapis.

Awkward silence ensues on her end of the radio.]

[whattaprick]

I meant the first time, what you told me about. Before we realized any of the Courts were even sniffing around.

[periphrasing]

RIGHT. Yes. That time. Sorry, I... Misunderstood.

[Now she just sounds super distracted.]

I need to go talk to Lapis. I'll let you know if I figure anything out.

[She tries to stop responding, at this point, unless Lambert insists on carrying on the conversation.]

[whattaprick]

Tell me if she remembers anything.

Because I’m having the other nightrunners ask people who were there what they remember, too.

[periphrasing]

Yes. Affirmative.

[GOODBYE.]