[ Dry, a little rueful, but Cain inclines his head in acknowledgement of the warning — and the courtesy that the warning is. Nothing is ever quite so easy as it seems, and he doesn't trust this meeting to be as straightforward as Cree presents it. But he's not going to turn his nose at the opportunity. ]
That means hunting down S-8 and his associates was a favor to you, then?
[ Of course this first meeting isn't truly free. No, the cost has been paid in advance, Cain's quite sure of that, and the only thing noteworthy he's done of late, as far as he's concerned, is catching one of the men with the M tattoos.
Which means that catching that man was acting, however inadvertently, in Cree's interests somehow, doesn't it? ]
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[ Dry, a little rueful, but Cain inclines his head in acknowledgement of the warning — and the courtesy that the warning is. Nothing is ever quite so easy as it seems, and he doesn't trust this meeting to be as straightforward as Cree presents it. But he's not going to turn his nose at the opportunity. ]
That means hunting down S-8 and his associates was a favor to you, then?
[ Of course this first meeting isn't truly free. No, the cost has been paid in advance, Cain's quite sure of that, and the only thing noteworthy he's done of late, as far as he's concerned, is catching one of the men with the M tattoos.
Which means that catching that man was acting, however inadvertently, in Cree's interests somehow, doesn't it? ]