technicalities

"All about dotting Is and crossing Ts," Minoth mutters. The revisions never stop. He'd thought this department all busywork, and yet...

Klaus smiles at him, though he doesn't know why - probably just a habit, amid the red tape of small talk.

"And what of the Ps and Qs? Comments like that might raise suspicion."

Suspicion of what, that they're all only human?

Minoth waves Klaus away with a pointedly old-fashioned pen clutched between his three middle fingers. Yeah, yeah. They don't usually have occasion to meet formally, let alone casually, so of course Klaus'd make it such a manifest pleasure.