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[dealing_death]

What can I do for you?

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[deadliestviper]

You can tell me what's on your mind, if you want to.

[dealing_death]

A great many things. Such is the result of too much work, not enough living.

[deadliestviper]

I've always said our kind knows more about death than life. Our blessing and our curse, apparently.

[dealing_death]

How do you manage with a child?

[deadliestviper]

For a long time I considered myself retired. We kept our wits about us, lived on my savings and ran from the law anytime someone recognized me. Not a bad lifestyle, at least for a while.

[dealing_death]

But that changed...

[deadliestviper]

It wasn't easy to keep up. As you can imagine, I have enemies.

[dealing_death]

Should you ever need....assistance, I am but a call away.

[deadliestviper]

My current employer prides himself on his ability to defend his clients, but I appreciate that.

[dealing_death]

I imagined you would be the freelance sort.

[deadliestviper]

I was.

[dealing_death]

Got an offer you couldn't refuse?

[deadliestviper]

Something like that.

[dealing_death]

In these trying times job stability is always good to have.

[deadliestviper]

I'll take it. Stability of any kind is a rarity for me.

[dealing_death]

Certainly a necessity with a little one.

[deadliestviper]

She likes excitement. It scares me.

[dealing_death]

She is like her mother then?

[deadliestviper]

Too much.

[dealing_death]

Doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.

[deadliestviper]

To an outsider, maybe not. To a parent... God, I don't know how my mother survived.

[dealing_death]

[She gave a soft laugh.] She'll be a handful but strong and confident.

[deadliestviper]

She will. Strongest little girl I've ever met.

[dealing_death]

Do you all have plans for the long weekend?

[deadliestviper]

We're going down to the beach and getting Italian sodas. Just taking it easy, you know. How about you?