[ you turn into silly string and can murder people and espionage that's cooler ]
... yeah, sure. [ a huff, and he sets his plate down between them as he carefully wipes his hand clean on an errant napkin. ]
Last job before I joined Lee's Detective Agency, years ago now, I was fired because I threw out a batch of goods my boss had ordered. He tore me a new one for it, but... they were dangerous, and Lungmen's got a few mafia families running around its streets. Boss didn't care if they got ahold of them as long as he got paid.
... my dad used to work for him, too, when he was still alive. Uncle Li didn't really care - said that he deserved to be broke, and I deserved to be out on the street because I was just like he was.
It was a lot of that across all kinds of jobs. They say in Lungmen that you have to be clever and "flexible" to get by these days. And I was never flexible enough, for them, until Mr. Lee took me in.
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... yeah, sure. [ a huff, and he sets his plate down between them as he carefully wipes his hand clean on an errant napkin. ]
Last job before I joined Lee's Detective Agency, years ago now, I was fired because I threw out a batch of goods my boss had ordered. He tore me a new one for it, but... they were dangerous, and Lungmen's got a few mafia families running around its streets. Boss didn't care if they got ahold of them as long as he got paid.
... my dad used to work for him, too, when he was still alive. Uncle Li didn't really care - said that he deserved to be broke, and I deserved to be out on the street because I was just like he was.
It was a lot of that across all kinds of jobs. They say in Lungmen that you have to be clever and "flexible" to get by these days. And I was never flexible enough, for them, until Mr. Lee took me in.