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[smugreport]

I don't need to hear "life's unfair" from someone who's never been threatened with a robotic skeleton after working their ass off to



[ long pause before the rest of the message comes in. ]

Hit send too soon. Anyways, nevermind. I don't need the bootstraps lecture. I got plenty fucked over right before I got here so I already know, thanks.

[dog_eat_dog]

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[smugreport]

Thanks for the help. How long have you been here anyways?

[dog_eat_dog]

About 18 months.

[She considers that she could have made two whole human lives in the same time that she decided to stop depriving others of theirs, and it feels grim.]

[smugreport]

[ That. does not bode well. ]

And that Pagan guy?

[ Please say like, 50 years. Minimum. ]

[dog_eat_dog]

Maybe 15 or 16.

[smugreport]

What the hell!


So what, did you murder 2 child kings?!

[dog_eat_dog]

[In some comedic way, this is one of the very few times anyone has ever asked her -- even in a roundabout way -- what she's done.]

I am 18 months clean from my last child-smuggling incident, no royalty involved.

[smugreport]

So not a child murderer. So not as bad. Cause there's like, kinda nothing worse than that right? That's the bottom of the barrel.


Have you done a big confession on the network? Maybe that's all it takes.



[ another long, considering pause. ]












brb.

[dog_eat_dog]

Not a child murderer, no. Good luck with whatever you're doing.