365 Days of Drabbles, Day 210- + 211
Day 210
For avanti_90: “A very nice person deliberately builds a fake reputation for evil. Why?”
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Single room office the size of a penthouse, check. Painfully white interior and 60's era “modern” furniture, check. God's eye view of the city out of ceiling to floor windows, check.
The guy even had a honest-to-God Nehru jacket.
“You're not fooling anyone, y'know,” I said.
“Says the intrepid reporter,” he replied.
“I've seen your records. Crime is ten percent what it was three years ago. So's unemployment. The air is clean now. You could run for governor.”
“Do you know how much power I'd have to give up to become governor?”
“Ha. I used to watch Justice League, sorry, and you're no Lex Luthor.”
“Keep talking like that and you'll earn yourself a nice little 'vacation.'”
“Yeah, I've noticed how inconvenient people disappear from your organization, only to end up in dream jobs that keep them remarkably occupied.”
“I'm not in the habit of wasting personnel smart enough to notice things. Redirection in always easier, and less messy, than murder.”
“Then what is with the evil mastermind act?”
“To keep people from being complacent.”
“Why?”
He leaned over his desk to glare at me. “I don't like sheep.”
For avanti_90: “A very nice person deliberately builds a fake reputation for evil. Why?”
* * *
Single room office the size of a penthouse, check. Painfully white interior and 60's era “modern” furniture, check. God's eye view of the city out of ceiling to floor windows, check.
The guy even had a honest-to-God Nehru jacket.
“You're not fooling anyone, y'know,” I said.
“Says the intrepid reporter,” he replied.
“I've seen your records. Crime is ten percent what it was three years ago. So's unemployment. The air is clean now. You could run for governor.”
“Do you know how much power I'd have to give up to become governor?”
“Ha. I used to watch Justice League, sorry, and you're no Lex Luthor.”
“Keep talking like that and you'll earn yourself a nice little 'vacation.'”
“Yeah, I've noticed how inconvenient people disappear from your organization, only to end up in dream jobs that keep them remarkably occupied.”
“I'm not in the habit of wasting personnel smart enough to notice things. Redirection in always easier, and less messy, than murder.”
“Then what is with the evil mastermind act?”
“To keep people from being complacent.”
“Why?”
He leaned over his desk to glare at me. “I don't like sheep.”