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Post by Jonathan Crane on Feb 18, 2009 21:56:13 GMT -5
"It takes a great deal to alarm me these days. I gathe you are Jekyll?"
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Post by Lucy Harris on Feb 18, 2009 21:57:55 GMT -5
Thinking it best to keep out of the way of the conversation, Lucy wandered over to a nearby chair, not interfering but close if anyone needed to ask her anything.
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Post by Edward Hyde on Feb 19, 2009 14:49:12 GMT -5
Jekyll's focus was on Crane. Young, rather pretty (he noted this in an abstract, unconscious way of course, though Ivy and Harry would have taken more notice), and very cool. This was not necessarily a bad thing, in Jekyll's eyes; he did not equate this with negative qualities.
"I am," he said. "Henry Jekyll. What has Miss Harris told you?"
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Mar 10, 2009 17:09:57 GMT -5
"Only the basics- that you've been having some trouble with a chemical solution you created."
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Post by Edward Hyde on Mar 10, 2009 17:19:03 GMT -5
"Hmm."
Jekyll watched him for a moment. There was a time in his life when he'd trusted people, not implicitly, but those with authority. That was before he'd begun to learn what resided within his own soul, and realized that no matter how civilized the man, a monster lurked inside him.
"You understand, sir, that the matter is extremely delicate. Moreso than a typical chemistry experiment is. There are personal consequences to failure, that is."
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Post by Lucy Harris on Mar 10, 2009 17:23:09 GMT -5
"Aye, that's for sure," Lucy mumbled.
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Mar 11, 2009 9:09:03 GMT -5
"I understand."
More than that, he knew what the serum Jekyll had created would do. But he wanted to hear it from the man himself.
"But if we're going to get anywhere, you should tell me more of the specifics."
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Post by Edward Hyde on Mar 11, 2009 10:03:45 GMT -5
Jekyll did not reply right away, but ran his index finger along the edge of the table that served as his lab.
"The matter is delicate, as I said," he repeated. "Frankly, sir, I need to be certain I can trust your discretion. And, forgive me, your credentials."
There was power in what he'd discovered, and he'd been lucky to keep it contained as much as he had, Lucy notwithstanding. But if he could not solve this problem, few if anyone could. And he was not about to divulge the secret to just anyone, if he did not feel certain the man could help.
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Mar 11, 2009 10:09:51 GMT -5
"Fair enough. Your associate contacted me at Charenton- at present, I am the head doctor. It's a fact easy enough to verify."
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Post by Edward Hyde on Mar 11, 2009 12:56:56 GMT -5
Jekyll could not imagine admitting such if it were not true, but he knew that not everyone held the current state of the asylum system in as much contempt as he did.
"Ah, I see," he said. "Then do I have your word that what passes between us today will remain so?"
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Post by Lucy Harris on Mar 11, 2009 16:02:52 GMT -5
Lucy, in the meantime, had wandered into the next room to change into her normal dress and straighten out her appearance. The shifting process often did a number on a person.
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Mar 12, 2009 12:20:14 GMT -5
"You have my word."
Of course, he would probably tell Sylvia, but there was no one else he trusted enough at the moment.
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Post by Edward Hyde on Mar 13, 2009 14:05:05 GMT -5
Jekyll watched him another long minute, something in him sensing that the man was too cold, somehow, to truly appreciate the danger.
But what else was there to do?
"Very well," he sighed. "I have invented a compound that, when ingested, alters the physical and mental properties of the body and... 'releasing' in pure form the latent aspects of one's character."
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Post by Jonathan Crane on Mar 16, 2009 11:55:24 GMT -5
"Hmm. Some sort of truth serum?"
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Post by Edward Hyde on Mar 16, 2009 12:24:19 GMT -5
"Not exactly," Jekyll hedged. "Unless one can say that gathering and exposing certain aspects of one's composite character--splitting that character up into its components--is a form of truth-telling. A man--or woman--who takes this concoction literally becomes someone else. My intent was to better the human race by bringing to the fore all that is good in a man, and excising all the bad. I have learned it is not so simple as that."
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