[He grins and pats her leg. Someone else can work the counter. She's the one who slips the guy the goods, that's all. But, hell, if she wants to run merchandise from place to place then he won't complain one bit, and if she likes it she can keep it up, and if she doesn't, there are always other opportunities.
He gulps down another mouthful of coffee, and raises a hand to tangle fingers in her hair.]
Yeah, of course. Like I said, you give part of it but you keep the rest. An' what you give up goes back to all of us in a pool, anyway. But, I bought my bike, I bought my guitar. It's okay to have the things that make life worth living, otherwise what's the point?
[He'll think of a way to rephrase that, eventually. The things that make being part of the world matter? The stuff that - no, fuck it, even if his heart stopped ticking and his existence is tethered to some unknowable horror of an entity, he's alive in the ways that count to him. It still works as a metaphor.]
But, if you see a car you like out there on the road an' it costs too much, you just ask. I'll make it happen. That's shit we're real good at.
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[He grins and pats her leg. Someone else can work the counter. She's the one who slips the guy the goods, that's all. But, hell, if she wants to run merchandise from place to place then he won't complain one bit, and if she likes it she can keep it up, and if she doesn't, there are always other opportunities.
He gulps down another mouthful of coffee, and raises a hand to tangle fingers in her hair.]
Yeah, of course. Like I said, you give part of it but you keep the rest. An' what you give up goes back to all of us in a pool, anyway. But, I bought my bike, I bought my guitar. It's okay to have the things that make life worth living, otherwise what's the point?
[He'll think of a way to rephrase that, eventually. The things that make being part of the world matter? The stuff that - no, fuck it, even if his heart stopped ticking and his existence is tethered to some unknowable horror of an entity, he's alive in the ways that count to him. It still works as a metaphor.]
But, if you see a car you like out there on the road an' it costs too much, you just ask. I'll make it happen. That's shit we're real good at.