The Third Hand

[lastlaughter]

Now, I see there's a bunch of rather hurtful rumors floating around since I got here to this... beautiful town. I can assure you that they are quite false.

Or just exaggerated. Either way, You people should be more careful about who you put your trust in. Kids running your police force? HAHAHAHA That's a joke if I ever heard it, especially if

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[dothefusion]

So you didn't kill five thousand people with knives and tommy guns and other stuff?

Again, strikes are invisible.

[lastlaughter]

Maybe about a fifth of that.

Nope.

[dothefusion]

'Cause some guy is really really sure you did.

[lastlaughter]

Oh, I'm well aware of that. Good thing he's locked up, isn't it?

[dothefusion]

Yeah, I heard about that. He's a little quirky, but he doesn't sound like he'd lie about something like that. Really law-obssessed and everything.

So why would he say you killed that many people if you didn't?

[lastlaughter]

You can go ahead and say "tight-ass." You won't be offending anyone.

I can't say, but is he on any new medications lately? Not enjoying life like he used to? Feeling the hurt that is everywhere?

[dothefusion]

...so in your world, you need the police to "charge" a person before they can take him out?

[lastlaughter]

If you want to do it the boring way, sure.

[dothefusion]

And nobody's got you yet because they haven't charged you?

[lastlaughter]

There's the whole matter of arrest before charging. So far as I can tell, I haven't done anything here. Yet.

Still, the police in general are a very... ineffectual force, don't you think?

[dothefusion]

Um, well they are in my world, mostly. I dunno about other places.