"Downright invisible." He agrees with a touch of amusement, but it passes across his features in a brief flash. "I'm... indisposed, obviously." Into that single word is thrown all the venom he would usually reserve for the most despicable of criminals, but infirmity itself is by far the most terrible enemy he has ever faced. "And I will be for a while yet." He takes another sip, then leans forward to set down the cup and reach for some papers.
"It's not that I don't trust the younger agents, there are some that have proven just as useful as any you know of, but putting them to work doing my job as well as theirs has my network stretched thin, and..." He pauses to cough a few times, wincing as the air whistles out of his lungs. This does not stop him putting on his spectacles and rifling through the stack of papers. "I know you're capable of the riskier work." His voice rasps as he recovers.
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Date: 2009-07-09 12:29 am (UTC)"It's not that I don't trust the younger agents, there are some that have proven just as useful as any you know of, but putting them to work doing my job as well as theirs has my network stretched thin, and..." He pauses to cough a few times, wincing as the air whistles out of his lungs. This does not stop him putting on his spectacles and rifling through the stack of papers. "I know you're capable of the riskier work." His voice rasps as he recovers.