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Post by Oswald Cobblepot on Dec 27, 2017 15:18:20 GMT -5
Oswald chuckled nervously.
"Not so much for myself--"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Dec 27, 2017 15:20:18 GMT -5
"Teja, then?"
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Post by Oswald Cobblepot on Dec 27, 2017 15:30:08 GMT -5
"Oh, no. I mean, of course, but I have a family. In the old country, this kind of thing..."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Dec 27, 2017 15:39:39 GMT -5
"So what precisely do you propose, Oswald?" Adrian asked, lifting his eyebrows mildly.
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Post by Oswald Cobblepot on Dec 27, 2017 15:43:24 GMT -5
"I'll keep you informed on what he's planning, and you'll help keep my aged mother from getting her throat ripped out."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Dec 27, 2017 15:50:10 GMT -5
"Is that Krolock's usual manner?" he asked. "And here I thought I'd made a particular impression."
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Post by Oswald Cobblepot on Dec 27, 2017 15:51:14 GMT -5
"Well, you know how their kind are." Or maybe he doesn't.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Dec 27, 2017 15:59:47 GMT -5
"I'll admit to a certain ignorance relative to how they work in the rest of the world," Adrian conceded. "I'm more used to the rather sad existence they experience here, in the US. All I know is that a few months ago, Johannes von Krolock attempted to claw off half of my face over a woman with whom I had ultimately only a brief affair, so I suppose I can excuse your caution under the circumstances."
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Post by Oswald Cobblepot on Dec 30, 2017 23:21:38 GMT -5
"It's different in the old country." In the old country he would have succeeded at it. You wouldn't have known a thing had happened, looking at Veidt. "They're territorial."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Dec 30, 2017 23:28:57 GMT -5
“He’s territorial here as well,” Adrian said.”Loki undid the damage, at Teja’s request. It was not my decision.”
He smiled a little, but it was tight and uncomfortable.
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Post by Oswald Cobblepot on Dec 31, 2017 0:04:13 GMT -5
"Mm." Oswald twiddled with his cigarette lighter again. "He believes I'm naturally subordinate to him. But I won't be party to a serious crime."
It wouldn't have been that serious, necessarily -- he could see it now, a glorious public humiliation that just skirted shy of any actual law-breaking. The stuff of vindictive fantasies.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Dec 31, 2017 0:07:23 GMT -5
“Light it if you want it,” Adrian sighed.
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Post by Oswald Cobblepot on Dec 31, 2017 0:25:48 GMT -5
"Gosh, thanks."
He did.
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Dec 31, 2017 0:32:38 GMT -5
“So, no serious crimes,” Adrian said lightly. “I wonder where your limit is for that.”
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Post by Oswald Cobblepot on Dec 31, 2017 0:34:00 GMT -5
Oswald really liked smoking, it turned out.
"We're not all like that, you know, connected."
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