Okay. Deal. Because I can't promise to never be in danger again. I--
[The road to the left is straight, wide, clear, and well-lit; the road to the right is narrow and dim, and snarled with brambles and thorns. She hovers, then takes a tentative step down the easy path, not wanting to drag him into the weeds of the hard one when she's not sure how important it is to this particular conversation. If those thorns and brambles belonged to him, she wouldn't hesitate to dive right in, but they don't. These ones are all hers.]
This doesn't have to be a one-and-done, either; we can keep workshopping this. The way you keep associating me with the FBI for some reason or another - I don't think that's a bad thing. It makes things chafe with us, and then it gives us stuff to dig into.
[A pause.]
I don't think you've ever been careless - really careless - in your life. I think both of us have had a lot of experience with circumstances that were way too big for us to control on our own, and we haven't taken to it in the same way.
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[The road to the left is straight, wide, clear, and well-lit; the road to the right is narrow and dim, and snarled with brambles and thorns. She hovers, then takes a tentative step down the easy path, not wanting to drag him into the weeds of the hard one when she's not sure how important it is to this particular conversation. If those thorns and brambles belonged to him, she wouldn't hesitate to dive right in, but they don't. These ones are all hers.]
This doesn't have to be a one-and-done, either; we can keep workshopping this. The way you keep associating me with the FBI for some reason or another - I don't think that's a bad thing. It makes things chafe with us, and then it gives us stuff to dig into.
[A pause.]
I don't think you've ever been careless - really careless - in your life. I think both of us have had a lot of experience with circumstances that were way too big for us to control on our own, and we haven't taken to it in the same way.