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[changeitroundsome]

[31st - Open spam in the pub]

[Facilier knew it was only a matter of time before he got himself a permanent Warden. He'd done well to get this far, he supposed, at least it had given him time to stockpile gris gris in the unlikely event he'd ever get his powers back proper again. It wasn't that he especially disliked Kira, either, she rankled him no more than any other average shmuck on the street, and at least she tried to be tolerable.

No, what worried him the most was that now she has his file. His whole life, there for her to read and digest. For a man who lived by his lies, for whom the truth was something never truly spoken, where the con was everything, this was decidedly Not Good. Everything he built so far here could come tumbling down like a house of cards, and there was nothing he could do to stop it. It was almost like being home again, having other people be able to hold power over him, and he hated hit.

So, when any other poor soul of prohibition would be enjoying the first new years in a lot of new years getting as sozzled as humanly possible, Facilier spent the night with just one glass of wine, thinking. As tempting as the idea was to get hammered, he'd need sobriety for this. If he could just find some way, any way, to work this colossal pain in the backside to his advantage, he might make this a somewhat bearable partnership.

He'll be civil to anyone who comes by to see him, but his usual charisma is dimmed. ]

[1st - Private to Kira]

[After a restless night, Facilier knows he has to bite the bullet. If he stays silent too long, his guilt will be damning. Best get this out and done with quickly, like ripping off a band aid. When he talks, the ease and charm is back in his tone. He needs to bring his A game to this.]

So. Looks like the Admiral decided we'd be a good fit for one another after all.

Comments

[maced_eggs]

[Mason gives a little bit of a sympathetic grin, tucking his hands in his lap under the table as he leans forward]

Truth, I don't mind. See, when you die, most've your secrets are laid bare anyway.

I could tell you truths about meself...

Starting with the idea that every real friend I've made, I've chased off through shite behavior. Drug use. Or, y'know, death - the big one.

Death don't tell lies.

[changeitroundsome]

[Those behaviours are nothing to Facilier, he even snorts out a half-laugh at the ridiculousness of it.]

Then you met a lot of folk who had very low tolerance levels.

[A pause.] No. It don't.

[maced_eggs]

Wellll, it's like, no one likes you when you don't like yourself.

Do you like you?

[changeitroundsome]

Of course I do. It's everyone else I don't like.

[maced_eggs]

Everyone else? S'not one person you like at all?

[changeitroundsome]

I suppose you're tolerable.

[maced_eggs]

That's me. Tolerable to the last.

[changeitroundsome]

Ain't a lot of people I find that way. Ya'll should be honoured.

[Good for Mason, he gets to be the one person Facilier Doesn't Want to Murder.]

[maced_eggs]

Oh, I am. Very honored, in fact. Most people don't like to hang around me who don't have to.

[changeitroundsome]

[Facilier takes a sip of his drink.]

Can never figure out why.

[maced_eggs]

...Think it's the smell, truthfully.

[changeitroundsome]

They ain't lived in a port city, then, if they think you've got an off putting smell.

[maced_eggs]

More'n likely not. We were up in Seattle.

[changeitroundsome]

There you go, then. Ain't got the right idea at all.

[maced_eggs]

You're saying I ought to go somewhere that smells all the time, so I won't have to bathe?

[changeitroundsome]

...I have no idea how you came to that conclusion, Mason.

[maced_eggs]

...S'not a bad idea, really.

[changeitroundsome]

Well, if y'all want to avoid bathing, I guess it is?

[maced_eggs]

I don't avoid it. It's just something I often forget to do.

[changeitroundsome]

...Well, y'all do have a busy life.

[maced_eggs]

Right? Exactly. Far too much important things to be doing than bathing.

[changeitroundsome]

[Amused.] Ya'll got far too much on your plate for trivial things like that.

[maced_eggs]

Exactly right. Exactly. Fuck bathing.

[changeitroundsome]

Ya'll could start a revolution, Mason.

[maced_eggs]

I jus' don't want to waste my time doing something I don't have to.