Graceful Descent

[Victor Steiner]

He smiled, she was a flirt indeed, to be fair so was he and he was hardly in a position to be critical of her, much rather he enjoyed the playfulness of her, although he did wonder if it masked something deeper. Allow me to ask then, why are you so concerned? Surely you are no stranger to betray or attempts on your life yet you have survived. So you can obviously handle yourself, does this situation strike you as one where I could just pull out a gun and shoot you? On that note he remembered that he hadn't even bothered to arm himself, his service pistol was in his room and it was only now that he realized that he didn't want to arm himself around her, for whatever reason. Perhaps he should spend more time analyzing himself, as Alfred would say Speak less and watch more.

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