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I'm his babysitter and manager at the same fucking time.

[ Two can play this game. He's neither of those things, and there's the small matter of that question not really having an answer he knows how to give, but sarcasm? He can drip that all day. ]

I'm also his housekeeper. Or I was, briefly, but I think I've been fired. Your turn.

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[ That's better than a lot of people that play the Bombastic Side-eye game. Nice. ]

Best friend. Confidant. Body guard? Sometimes I give him great head.

[ By which he means very often. ]

Great. [ He regrets asking, thank you. ] Any chance that you confidon't enable his more murderous tendencies? Or is that wishful thinking on my part?

[ Confid— ]

What makes you think I was enabling those in the first place?

[ Wow! All he did was support (cheerlead) his buddy at the moot hall meeting. ]

You weren't? Well, that's a relief. I'm glad we had this chat.

[ The chat is not, in fact, over. ]

Come on, [ Coaxing, goading, baiting, ] Answer the question.

Technically, my question operated on the basis that I don't already know the answer, and would rather seek expert testimony before coming to a conclusion. Hence me asking you.

[ Goad somebody who's new, buddy. ]

Let's try again, I'll take out the specialist vocabulary. [ Confidon't, he's talking about confidon't - ] Do you or do you not enable his more murderous tendencies?

[ Ugh, fine. ]

Nah, [ Yeah, ] he's growing those all on his own. Thanks for asking, though. I'm like, super hecking flattered right now.

Having fun being his sister's babysitter?

I haven't actually met her. She was a little too busy bleeding profusely and dying the last time I swung by.

I take it you're not going to dissuade him, either?

So that's a no.

[ Good. He's just sad he wasn't there to watch the guy fail. ]

You take it correctly. You might wanna dissuade anyone from coming after him, by the way. I think Aegon's got a waiting list at this point.

[ And Petre can't bite all of their faces off. ]

Isn't that your job? Body guard and all.

Sure, but you might disapprove of my methods.

[ He's using so many smart words today. ]

That sounds like something I'll need to take up with you directly.

That's not what you're doing right now?

It wasn't. No offense, but I barely know who you are.

[ But now it is, yes. ]

None taken. I'm just getting to know you, too.

[ Getting brand new attention from someone? He's living. ]

Perfect. So. Care to elaborate on your methods?

For keeping Rhae-Rhae's simps from coming after him? So far I only told a guy I'd break his legs.

Huh, straightforward. So long as you don't go actioning that or encouraging future homicides I don't see us having a problem.

[ PLEASE Petre his watchlist is already too long... be good... ]

[ ok stephen ]

Don't worry, I haven't killed anyone yet. [ An aside, ] Did I break any legs? There was this one time I burned that chick. And I broke someone's nose.

[ He can keep going. ]

[ A long, slow breath in, released on a heavy sigh. ]

Great. Listen to me - ninety nine percent of the time, I don't care what you do. You want to luxuriate in a little cycle of protection and revenge with people who decide to go up against you after a warning, fine. Maybe I'll take issue with it, maybe I wont - it doesn't seem like you're going to be responsive to threats.

I'll let you know if I decide we have a problem, and then you can decide whether or not you want me to be your problem going forward. Sound good?

[ He simply does not have the energy for this guy's energy. ]

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Depends. What happens when you're somebody's problem?

Whatever I want to happen. Putting people in time out has been working well for me recently.

I don't know if I'm feeling very responsive to that either.

Mm, well, we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

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