"Because I don't want a stranger rummaging through my personal life?"
They fold their arms.
"This is a favor to you too, you know. We can have a relationship built on
trust or built on that little gift from the Admiral, but you don't get
both."
"Okay. I'm okay to shelve it for now. I think that would change for me if you started murdering people and I felt like I was failing at keeping other people safe and allowing myself to be tricked by you- so tell you what, please don't murder anyone in anything other than self-defense and I won't ask for a second file copy from the admiral?"
"Then I guess this belongs to you. Enclosure- we can be done in here."
Says Miles, to the forest at large. It stills down, drones stopping whirring, door appearing a little way ahead of him. He unshoulders his backpack, to get the paperwork out for them.
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Date: 2020-04-27 10:36 pm (UTC)He's willing to think about it, but this is the kind of thing where he's going to at least ask, first.
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Date: 2020-04-27 10:41 pm (UTC)"Because I don't want a stranger rummaging through my personal life?"
They fold their arms.
"This is a favor to you too, you know. We can have a relationship built on trust or built on that little gift from the Admiral, but you don't get both."
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Date: 2020-04-27 10:44 pm (UTC)Says Miles, thinking this through, at a trudge.
"Okay. I'm okay to shelve it for now. I think that would change for me if you started murdering people and I felt like I was failing at keeping other people safe and allowing myself to be tricked by you- so tell you what, please don't murder anyone in anything other than self-defense and I won't ask for a second file copy from the admiral?"
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Date: 2020-04-28 12:00 pm (UTC)"With my hand on my heart," look, there it is, "I haven't knowingly murdered anyone'. And I don't plan to."
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Date: 2020-04-29 02:04 pm (UTC)Says Miles, to the forest at large. It stills down, drones stopping whirring, door appearing a little way ahead of him. He unshoulders his backpack, to get the paperwork out for them.
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Date: 2020-04-29 02:08 pm (UTC)"Oh, is that how it works?" Trouble drawls, looking ahead to the door. "I was almost looking forward to seeing the end of this."
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Date: 2020-04-29 05:14 pm (UTC)"This is yours."
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Date: 2020-04-29 06:40 pm (UTC)They accept the document with a sharp-toothed smile.
"Thank you, darling. In this spirit of generosity, is there anything I can do for you?"
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Date: 2020-04-29 06:53 pm (UTC)Says Miles, hopefully.
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Date: 2020-04-29 06:56 pm (UTC)"That's fair," Trouble says magnanimously. "Lunch, I can manage."
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Date: 2020-04-30 06:33 pm (UTC)Says Miles, choosing to interpret this as a success, if a modest one.
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Date: 2020-05-01 07:31 pm (UTC)"Likewise."
A pause.
"Did you mean a lunch, or...?"