Meeting the Joker

[The Joker]

- Looks like Christmas came earlier this year to me - he replies while laughing. - These presents... I like it! Automatic riffle is less-me, nevertheless it's really impressive. I shall put it on a wall in my office aboard Asylum. But a rocket-launcher!? Whoa! It's all new and shinny. Can't wait to test it and on a docked liner full of vacationers heading to Hawaii.

Then he lowered his tone of joy like a grateful kid who felt like his parents gave him too much for a present.
- Despite experiencing some financial difficulties, I'm afraid I can't accept this money Iscariot. It's a matter of principles. But that won't stop me doing what I'm doing already - with a reassuring voice he continued. - Tides will change some day or we'll drown, my friend. Whatever happens, I won't forget this... kind? Yes, this is a kind gesture from a murdering sociopath like you. Isn't life funny like I am sometimes? Just yesterday the two of us... we were shooting at each other, "officer". And today and tomorrow--we'll work together side by side.

They laughed and drank round after round, until shades of purple turned into green.

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