[video]

[glassinine]

[The thing about employing text is that when you start using it when all your broadcasts are in video, people tend to question why you've suddenly switched. So he makes the decision to instead compose himself as best as he can and use video instead.

Unfortunately, he always sort of overestimates his ability to compose himself. He certainly doesn't seem distraught, or panicked, or anything of the sort, but he's definitely shaky. This is definitely a far cry from his normal, slow, quiet, lengthy broadcasts.]

I'm leaving on a business trip abroad for...some length of time. I'm - not certain how long. Please don't try to contact me; I'll be far too busy to answer any messages.

Good day.

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[longestwinter]

People like you.

[There we go.]

Sometimes, people fuck up, say sorry the best they can and start over. Even when that feels like the least adequate thing in the world.

[glassinine]

[But he shakes his head, miserable.]

This isn't about...It's not running away. It's preventing future harm.

[longestwinter]

And that's unavoidable if you stick around? What's going on, Miles.

[glassinine]

I cannot...talk about it.

[Don't want to, more like.]

Just - It is unavoidable.

[longestwinter]

You could be right. I can't say unless you give me some more to go on.

So what I'll say is if you're a danger to anyone and the only way you know to deal with it involves hiding, then you're putting the rest of us at risk. They're not gonna let you run and when you get pulled back here nothing's going to have changed. If you're a danger, and you don't want to be, then you got a responsibility to ask for help.

[glassinine]

...I'm an attorney, sir. If the government tries to relocate me back here, I'm more than equipped to deal with that. If I can do nothing else, I can do that.

[longestwinter]

It's Bucky. And the idea that making a legal case for your isolation's gonna be more than pissing in the wind is bullshit, we both know it.

[glassinine]

[He shakes his head stubbornly.]

I'll convince them.

[longestwinter]

[He laughs, soft and not exactly full of humor.]

You got no idea who you're dealing with.

Look - have you told anybody the story? I need to know at least a couple other people think this is the smart thing.

[glassinine]

...Yes. Some other people know the full story.

[As to what they think of it - No comment.]

[longestwinter]

And that's half what I asked.

[glassinine]

They agree that it is necessary.

[longestwinter]

Hm.

[It's not a very satisfied hm.]

[glassinine]

[And Edgeworth hears that dissatisfaction. And he asks:]

And answer me this: you say you "need" to know. But what would you do if you were unsatisfied?

[longestwinter]

You're not the only one here working on looking out for the people who need it.

[And he's the wikipedia entry for when running from your guilt ends badly.]

[glassinine]

If you're doing that, then you have to agree that this is the correct course of action. Looking out for them means taking away things that will hurt them.