...Squalo? [Luci looks floored, but after a beat she can't say she's totally unsurprised. He had an incredibly hard head, and he could be truly idiotic when he thought he had something to gain. In this case, apparently, it was gambling with Lesedi Santiago.]
[Luci feels a brief flash of fury, and thoughts of punishment for calling out bullshit leave a bad taste in her mouth. But those quiet down very quickly, not just because she's naked in Lesedi's bed but... something else tells her to be quiet.]
I'm surprised, he can be thick-headed and can say some stupid shit. Why did you make an exception?
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...and that's it? [Read: did you kill him?]
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[She looks at her fingernails disinterestedly.]
He had to be disciplined. I tell you, if anyone else had given me that sort of attitude...thinking he can manipulate me.
But I made an exception.
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[Luci feels a brief flash of fury, and thoughts of punishment for calling out bullshit leave a bad taste in her mouth. But those quiet down very quickly, not just because she's naked in Lesedi's bed but... something else tells her to be quiet.]
I'm surprised, he can be thick-headed and can say some stupid shit. Why did you make an exception?