Look, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it makes up for the consequences I've suffered, but it's certainly more than the nothing I would have had. And that's your doing.
[ What?? What do you do?? with someone saying thank you??? He shifts anxiously and uncertainty, and tries to figure out some graceful way to accept that - and, failing that, some rebuff. He doesn't have either. So instead, awkwardly, he mumbles: ]
...Yeah. I'll get you a good return on investment. You'll get rich before long. I'm going to invest in some restaurants - they're high-risk, but really high return, too.
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Voice;
Date: 2016-04-28 09:47 pm (UTC)Uh - oh. Asking for money?
Voice;
Date: 2016-04-29 12:00 am (UTC)I tell you, it feels good to have something go right for once. I'll need to buy you a drink just for that much.
Voice;
Date: 2016-04-29 12:57 pm (UTC)Voice;
Date: 2016-04-29 02:15 pm (UTC)...It's rather intimidating to "deal" with an emperor, you know.
Voice;
Date: 2016-04-30 06:06 pm (UTC)Yeah. It is. And with the people surrounding the emperor, too.
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Date: 2016-04-30 06:26 pm (UTC)[so relieved that someone else seems to get it.]
Look, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it makes up for the consequences I've suffered, but it's certainly more than the nothing I would have had. And that's your doing.
So - thank you.
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Date: 2016-05-01 12:03 pm (UTC)[ What?? What do you do?? with someone saying thank you??? He shifts anxiously and uncertainty, and tries to figure out some graceful way to accept that - and, failing that, some rebuff. He doesn't have either. So instead, awkwardly, he mumbles: ]
Uh - what consequences?
no subject
Date: 2016-05-01 01:04 pm (UTC)[light, vague, and tired.]
Anyway, this should mean I can vest with you now, doesn't it?
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Date: 2016-05-01 10:23 pm (UTC)Invest.
[ And then a pause as he debates whether or not to say anything. Whether or not he should...Hesitantly, finally, he says: ]
So then - Lucifer is...trying to tell you what to do?
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Date: 2016-05-02 05:06 am (UTC)[there's a pause on the line - just enough time for an inner debate which is perhaps a little late.]
..."Trying". Possibly. It's - complicated. [and completely awful.] I'd rather even that be kept between us, if you don't mind.
But, ah, the money? I can still take your offer?
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Date: 2016-05-02 04:05 pm (UTC)[ He swallows. Another one, then. Another one that Lucifer has claimed, just because of his connection to the Barrayarans. ]
How is it, uh...complicated, though?
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Date: 2016-05-02 04:51 pm (UTC)And I was thinking eight thousand, actually. Would that be all right?
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Date: 2016-05-06 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-06 03:51 am (UTC)I'll have it sent over. [once he figures out how to do that.]
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Date: 2016-05-06 04:40 am (UTC)Do you know how?
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Date: 2016-05-06 04:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-06 01:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-05-06 01:37 pm (UTC)