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[paper_knight]

There's a click and a whir, and a round-faced boy in a starched white shirt appears on the screen. He doesn't seem aware that the comm unit is recording him; the feed shakes and spins disorientingly as he turns the device over and over, examining it with a steadily widening smile.

"It's really broadcasting? Gosh.He clears his throat and speaks

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[video of STARE]

[timisnotme]

.........................................................what?

[timisnotme]

I see. *smirk* You have a bright future ahead of you kid.

[paper_knight]

He squints suspiciously, wondering if Tim's mocking him.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

[timisnotme]

Everything's not so clear cut in the real world.

[paper_knight]

"I know that! There are bad cops, and bad lawyers, and bad judges. But that's what the good ones are for."

But really, he's still talking about pulp novels, where the basic assumption is that at least one part of the justice system is always corrupt. Anything more complicated that Tim might be talking about flies over his head.

[timisnotme]

Wouldn't you not know till it's too late?

*He's actually finding this conversation pretty amusing*

[paper_knight]

"No! I mean...I don't know."

This is a curveball. He bites his lip, troubled.

"There's got to be a way to tell."

[timisnotme]

Generally corrupt officials don't go around announcing the fact they take bribes.

[paper_knight]

"Well...I'd be a good one."

[timisnotme]

You could try taking them down from the inside.

[paper_knight]

"Hey, yeah! Like the Continental Op."

[timisnotme]

Like the what?

[paper_knight]

The Op! He's this PI from the magazines. He always gets in with the bad guys and turns the tables on 'em at the end."

[timisnotme]

Oh oh. I get it.

So you're gonna be like him when you grow up? I bet you will be.

[paper_knight]

"I will."

He sounds completely sure of himself.

"What about you? What do you do?"

He's looking at Tim's scrubs curiously, wondering what they mean.

[timisnotme]

Well right now, nothing.

I was an actor back home though.

*Which.. makes total sense for him to be wearing scrubs right? Right?*