[Audio network post] Backdated to December 25, Mid-morning

[scarsolderthanyou]

Merry Christmas, everybody.

[He's American. He can still say "merry" even though he knows perfectly well the local saying is "happy". He just doesn't care.]

In case you're wondering, the coal stocking things smell like that bastard from the bomb site, who was fooling around with it, a few months back. I'd remember that smell anywhere.

While I'm here, is everyone okay, with this power thing? Nobody's stranded anywhere without a fireplace or friends for body heat?

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[iamnotgod]

He could just have some sort of disability, if they wanted to focus on him seeming 'odd'.

[Goodness knows this wouldn't be the first time someone with a disorder has been considered 'acting unnaturally'...]

Not that it's an excuse for anything he's done, obviously.

[scarsolderthanyou]

Obviously. I think they were hoping it was some sort of lead. I didn't think "man acts uncomfortable at a bomb site" really counted as a lead, but I don't have all the information they have.

It might be suspicious, itself, that they have information about this that we don't.

[iamnotgod]

Benjiro couldn't find much about our investigators, either.

[Well, the superintendent Khan specifically, but that didn't mean it didn't apply to the others she'd brought with her.]

None of us work for the British government, last I checked - or at least aren't in investigations.

[scarsolderthanyou]

I'm not even technically British, though I'm a citizen by marriage even with Amy long gone. I guess maybe somebody should try and find out more. Maybe a retiree volunteer might not be turned away.

[He wonders what kind of scents he could pick up if he hung around the government buildings, anyway.]

[iamnotgod]

[And that thought piques his interest.]

It doesn't sound the sort of thing they'd advertise on their website, if how they were acting around the Green was any indication. Worth a look, perhaps.

[scarsolderthanyou]

Well, I wouldn't go walking in and ask to help with secret investigations. But you never know what you can pick up just hanging around, doing odd volunteer jobs.

[Might at the very least give him something to do besides babysit and read and scroll the network.]

[iamnotgod]

Not for certain, no.

The trick is putting yourself out there - and not being taken by surprise by whoever happens to be looking.

[scarsolderthanyou]

I'm an expert at not looking surprised. My poker face is very good.

[He sounds like he might be grinning.]

[iamnotgod]

[Walter snorts, but he doesn't have much to say to that except:]

I have no reason to doubt you on that.