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[thedifferencebetween]

Handsome Jack here! I'm way too busy being awesome to answer the phone, but tell me why you're calling and if you're important enough, your people will hear from my people.

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[beastofasister]

[She had been playing around, maintaining this relationship like a tool to be used. That reply strikes something in her, though, in a way she hadn't expected.

To be isolated by your vision. To have those who couldn't grasp it rage against you. She had only done what she had to, and yet...

When she answers, she can feel her heartbeat in her chest.]

Because she doesn't understand. [All at once, her tone is quiet, its childlike sweetness missing.] No matter how clear the truth may seem to you, she could never grasp it. After all... Rats are clever, but they're still just animals in the end.

[thedifferencebetween]

[Well what do ya know. That's an answer that Jack's not expecting, but is damn pleased to hear. Now that...that is encouraging. He knew he liked this kid for a reason. He lifts a hand and clicks his fingers at Manaka, in the 'you got it' gesture.]

Rats can fetch, you know. Go and get something and bring it back to ya. Athena could fetch, too. Not as well, but.... hell, what did I expect? I knew she was a messed up chick when I hired her, I thought that would work in my favor.

But you...you've nailed it, princess. She doesn't understand, none of'em do. They'd rather wallow in shit and eat garbage on a festering pus hole of a planet than let me fix things! I try and help, I devote my god damned life to helping those ungrateful sons of taints, and this is what I get?

[Talk about skagshit. No. No, this is not gonna stand. None of it.]

[beastofasister]

Mm, and that's why you're more than they are. Even in a place like this, that hasn't changed.

[Just as quickly as that change came over her, though, it's gone again, a bright smile breaking over Manaka's face.]

—Ah, but I was going to make you something to eat, wasn't I? Rest up, I'll have things ready in just a bit!

[Maybe she'll slip the wine in the fridge on the way.]