[That was easy. He turns, takes stock, and...yields.
From the inside of his waistcoat, Izzy pulls a bone. A human bone, a human rib bone, sharpened to a fine point on one end. It has been meticulously engraved with scrimshaw swallows and the sweet little scene of a ship on the waves.
It's a good dagger, all things considered. Izzy sort of hates to part with it.
I do, actually. This knowledge does nothing to explain why you have turned one of Skulduggery's ribs into a tasteful desk ornament. Which is clearly the more pressing question.
Mm, well I assume they died terribly given our last conversation, but that doesn't change anything. I offered you a partnership, you rejected me. And now I am very willingly, gracefully, offering you my gratitude. Do you want it or not?
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From the inside of his waistcoat, Izzy pulls a bone. A human bone, a human rib bone, sharpened to a fine point on one end. It has been meticulously engraved with scrimshaw swallows and the sweet little scene of a ship on the waves.
It's a good dagger, all things considered. Izzy sort of hates to part with it.
And yet, he offers it all the same.]
Here. For bringing him back to me.
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on the one hand, who is he to question a cool knife. on the other.]
... I feel like this situation requires a minimum of... three explanations.
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You know perfectly well who I'm talking about.
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If you don't want it..
[He'll just put it away, then]
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[He wiggles the shiv a bit. Do you want it?]
Is that the nature of our relationship now? Allowing each other to do things?
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Don't bother with any pretense. It already belongs to me.
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You don't want to know what happened to the last man who thought that, human.
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I don't want anything from you. But, that is mine. And you are going to hand it over to me.
[holds out palm]
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I made it, I haven't given it to you yet. How's it belong to you?
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1/2
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Huh.
Congratulations?
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oofa doofa sorry work is insane
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