198 Near Disasters

[cal_sitter]

The last few curses have left no doubt as to who would kill me for what reasons and how. That kind of clarity should be valued. It's not often someone makes the attempt and then thinks better of it before you're obliged to hyperextend his neck.

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[winewomenand]

I knew you hated me.

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[cal_sitter]

You'll know I hate you on the day I kill you myself.

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[winewomenand]

Dangers to my life and limb of various and sundry types aside, you're talking to her. That's good, I suppose.

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[cal_sitter]

I can hardly abandon her to the City's whims.

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[winewomenand]

I think you're making excuses for yourself.

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[cal_sitter]

Would you care to explain?

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[winewomenand]

Not particularly.

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[cal_sitter]

Where'd I put that waiver for your ankle?

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[winewomenand]

Promise is a grown lady of some experience, Niko. She would have found or liberated a crossbow in her own time. And you should know well enough that a bodyguard or a weapon is only convenience and pomp for a vampire.

You are hovering. Hovering through a telescope, but hovering.

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[cal_sitter]

And if I am?

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[winewomenand]

Then you are. But don't make excuses for yourself. I am not asking for a confession or a heart-to-heart just yet. I recognize that healing takes time and for someone like yourself, a good deal of it.

But you're too steadfast to pull it off and make it look good. Leave that to the experts. Come out of the fantasy.

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[cal_sitter]

There's no fantasy between us, Robin. Not anymore.

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[winewomenand]

We view the world in different ways.

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[cal_sitter]

I noticed that around the time your priorities shifted from two men in your office prepared to kill you to what they had to say about how you fill your pants.

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[winewomenand]

Not with a tail, as I am sure we're all well-informed by now.

Is this your way of telling me that you are too serious-minded for my considerations?

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[cal_sitter]

That much is indisputable to the misfortune of everyone who walked through a certain loft.

I'll accept whatever considerations of yours I feel are valid.