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[avoirfaim]

"You have reached Dr. Hannibal Lecter. I am out of my office or away from the phone at the moment, and if you leave a your name and phone number I will return your call. Have a good day."

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[avoirfaim]

[ The pronounced silence as he put it had been half circumstantial, and half planned. After that event and after the last murder, he found it best to keep his head down. Normally he wouldn't even consider such a thing but alas, this is Wonderland, a place where he can't kill people to keep them quiet and can't escape if need be. For all the playful enjoyment he gets out of hiding in plain sight, it would not work out in his favor here.

And what a shame.

That event in itself had been too revealing, and frankly embarrassing. So, silence, waiting for Will to contact him first. Feigning disinterest heals many an oversight. ]

I do apologize, Will, it seems that I lost track of my schedule and couldn't find the time to reach out properly. Of course your appointment remains as long as you choose to keep it.

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[glumshoe]

[ Will considered as much and dismissed the strong implications behind it. Hannibal's motivations aren't thrown off course by an idiotic high school fumbling, but it pays to make sure.

So. What to talk around, and what to confront? ]

It's not a problem. I don't get many opportunities to be concerned over you.

Do you have something you want to discuss outside of professional bounds?

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[avoirfaim]

There isn't often the need for concern, though I do appreciate the sentiment.

As for personal versus professional bounds, I was under the impression that our conversations always straddled the line between the two. Is there something you want to discuss?

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[glumshoe]

I thought it was somewhat more vital to check, as we find ourselves in quite the unique friendship. I don't know what I would ask about your curious behavior during the event, even if I could narrow it down to anything outside of teenage oddity. I guess the surprise is that you had the capacity for it at all. Sometimes I imagine you sprung forth fully formed at birth in a suit and tie, or perhaps you simply always have been.

But I did want to say that our last dinner has made me look forward to the next.

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[avoirfaim]

[ There is so very much to parse through in Wills series of statements. In the word choices and sentence structure, Hannibal hears an echo of himself. In speech he would be proud of that, but in text? He's still too proud but the hint of perhaps intentionality pricks him gently. ]

I am capable of a good many things, Will. As it happens that includes making you a follow up appointment with a nice Chianti, perhaps this time with my shirt sleeves rolled up.

[ It's a joke, Will, a jab at your jab. As for his behavior during the event though, the portrait of the artist as a young man was hardly flattering and he chooses not to touch that. ]