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[dog_eat_dog]

There have been a lot of attempts. I...

[ She pauses. Is there any sense keeping it a secret? ]

I might have found it. Or part of it, anyway.

[tucky]

Well, a part's a start, right?

[dog_eat_dog]

Yeah. It's in my partner's hands now.

[tucky]

And you trust them, right?

[dog_eat_dog]

I do, but without me riding his ass... I don't know. He's tetchy. Men, you know?

[tucky]

[Wryly:]

Yeah, I know.

[dog_eat_dog]

Just mad no matter what.

[tucky]

And thinking he knows better than everybody?

[dog_eat_dog]

Absolutely. He listens eventually but to get there it's a whole lot of "no" and "listen here" and "Tess" -- acts like I've lost my fucking mind at least once a day. You have one of those?

[tucky]

Not in a while. A couple people here were like that, for me.

[dog_eat_dog]

Do you miss them?

[tucky]

Yeah, I do. Because I think hearing opinions I don't agree with is a good thing, and I think sharing mine with people who don't agree with me is, too.

[dog_eat_dog]

Yeah, that’s probably useful. I always kinda liked the pushback.

[tucky]

If it's just because they're a know-it-all, though, that's annoying. So-- it depends, I guess.

You miss your partner?

[dog_eat_dog]

I don’t let those types tell me anything. Waste of my time.

[ Good question, though. ]

Yeah. Normally he’d be the one taking care of me through something like that.

[tucky]

I'm sorry. That's tough.

[dog_eat_dog]

Yeah, well, he’d say I got us into this mess and he’d be right, so it is what it is. Can’t waste time crying about it.