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"Already called the others, too."
I chew it over.
Ah, what the hell?
"I'll be good in 72 hours."

"But we get to keep whatever we take. And whoever we hit has to play dead until The Banks say recession's over."
"And what's stopping the lawyer from taking it?"
"Threat of a 4 star review."
Gig work was not so distant a memory as I'd hoped. Not nearly.

That got my attention enough to push the virtual kobold off my dick. "Go on."
"War-Lawyers hire us with funny money, lease us out to do 'kinetically backed merger negotiations and exigent repossessions'," more quotes, "and then we get fired for being contractors!"
That kobold's looking good again.

I raise a finger, "The version of me with hazel eyes did."
"Right, right." Peil mimes rolling *'s eyes with *'s topmost arm. Never did get the cli-re thing. "You in or what?"
"What would we even be doing?"
"Shockball with no range limit."

Can't forget this one, either~