[Open Broadcast: Liminal Space, Post-Ace of Spades]

[casabianca]

[It's taken him a while to work up to doing this. Years of training and self-censorship have made the very idea of admitting who and what he is to someone who doesn't already know absolutely intolerable. At best this thing he intends to do is treason. At worst it could get someone killed. Not here, back home, but as he is here... his failing to intervene could also get someone killed.]

It became obvious to me over the course of our most recent... outing that most of you have no experience with the sort of work we've been volunteered to do. I don't think it's too forward to say that we could all benefit from better coordination and a bit of training.

[In the few seconds of hesitation that follow, it isn't hard to imagine the twist of deep, painful guilt that roils in his gut. The tone of his mental voice is so carefully distant, so close to wearied that the implications are there for those willing to look.]

I have some experience with... professional travelling. If anyone would like some advice on how to blend in and communicate with one another a bit less obviously in a... in a foreign setting...

[Another silence, and if he were speaking aloud, the silence might be filled by an uncomfortable, resigned sigh.]

...don't hesitate to ask.

((ooc: Peter here is offering to coach people in the art of espionage. I'll try to have a writeup on the subject up and available as soon as possible for anyone who expresses interest.))

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[protect_and_serve]

You're speaking of... covertcy.

[casabianca]

Je parle de la subtilité.

[I'm talking about subtlety. The switch in languages is natural, prompted by the accent, the phrasing. His French sounds natural, as natural as his English, bearing only the faintest foreign accent, which is for the most part well-disguised.]

Il faut être plus prudent; c'est dangereux, étant visible quand on doit recueillir des informations. Il invite la fausseté. Et des choses pires.

[We have to be more careful; it's dangerous, being conspicuous when one needs to gather information. It invites falsehood. And worse things.]

[protect_and_serve]

[Joscelin's own accent is different, burred in some places, smooth and sibilant in others, and his vocabulary is archaic - older even than medieval French, although there are some more modern turns of phrase in it that defy any convention of the language, past or present.]

Not everyone takes to it so easily. And just a little knowledge can be more dangerous than none at all. Novice spies... take risks.

[His tone speaks of wry experience.]