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OWEN SHAW | 35

Born and raised in London, resident of the world. Any more personal information given only to those willing to ask for it.

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"This is Shaw. Leave your message, get back to you once I can."

Comments

[wont_be_me]

So you hold all the cards, and I play in to your vanity by pretending to care what's on the other side of them? Is that the game?

[badluckwithplanes]

Why, can you think of a rule we could add to make it more fair?

[wont_be_me]

It doesn't need to be fair, it needs to be fun.

[badluckwithplanes]

My mistake then. So out with it. What would make it more fun?

[wont_be_me]

Something in it for me, obviously. Do I get something if I call your bluff?

[badluckwithplanes]

Why not. If you can name something in this place that I have the power to give.

[It's not like they have access to money or weapons or drugs or...a lot, really.]

[wont_be_me]

Which sounds worse: owing me favors, or owing me secrets?

[badluckwithplanes]

Toss-up. Gotten a bead on you well enough to know you could do dangerous things with either.

[He means it as a compliment.]

Suppose I prefer favors, if I get a choice. Which I'm sure means you'll want to go with secrets.

[wont_be_me]

Oh, I'll let you pick.

What should I lose, if I'm wrong?

[badluckwithplanes]

Let's just keep it simple. You can owe me a favor, as well, if you lose.

[wont_be_me]

They'd better be interesting favors.

[badluckwithplanes]

They probably won't be sexual. Too easy.

[wont_be_me]

You don't want an easy win?

[badluckwithplanes]

Funny. Most girls don't like to be thought of as "easy".

[wont_be_me]

I don't care what you think of me. I thought that was obvious.

[badluckwithplanes]

You care enough to want to hold my attention though it seems.

[wont_be_me]

If you say so.

[badluckwithplanes]

Ask your first question.

Unless you've lost your nerve.

[wont_be_me]

I'm genuinely trying to decide what might be interesting about a life on pre-interstellar Earth. How many bastard children do you have?

[badluckwithplanes]

None that I'm aware of.

[Not a lie. He does NOT want to be a father, he's usually strictly careful about birth control.]

What about your idea of pre-interstellar life makes you think that I must?

[wont_be_me]

That's how I imagine Earth. Squalid and squandered.

[badluckwithplanes]

You're not wrong. Not with parts of it anyhow. Should've seen the old neighborhood, where I grew up.

[No third world country, maybe, but it was a crowded East End neighborhood with too many people doing too many things on every street. Smog and soot and rubbish galore.]

[wont_be_me]

That was easy.

[badluckwithplanes]

Because I told you about where I grew up? If you're trying to tap a vein, you'll have to dig deeper than that.

[wont_be_me]

Don't be so paranoid :)