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We've got posts up playing icebreakers and asking for people to regale them with the exciting tales of their weekend, so I think it's safe to say that we're past the current crisis? We better be, because I'm sick of slicing my fingers up leafing through the classifieds and don't need anybody jumping on me for being flippant during a tragedy.

[so preemptively defensive, Hazel. maybe you should have had somebody proofread this before sending it out.]

I'm looking for a job. I had this whole thing typed up with my preferences and abilities, but it ended up sounding like I was looking to run bootleg liquor over the border.

Which. I mean, if there's an opening for that I'm totally down for an interview? But that's not exactly the kind of thing you advertise for.

I was a private detective back home, buuut honestly I think I broke more laws than solved actual cases. No convictions, though! Uh. The point is I have a shitty skillset and I am super desperate. If the job's not boring as hell and it can finance dozens of pre-ordered video games I'm interested.

Look, it's this or I start prying radios out of hovercars. The crime rate of Heropa is in your hands!!

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She was a ghost in the motel room I was staying at. She wanted to see her son and confront the guy who killed her.

And I don't own a car.

That makes sense when you put it like that.

[Then again, he knows a witch that tried to seduce him and then tried to kill him with a voodoo doll and he's searching for a rock that supposedly grants immortality. Who's he to judge?]

I'm a thief, a gentleman thief, but still a thief all the same. I'm not going to think any less of you for stealing a car.

It's not the car I was worried about!!! She'd been stuck there for thirty years before I showed up. That's not fair.

[There's a few minutes before his own reply arrives.]

No, it's not. I'm sure she was thankful that someone like you was willing and able to help her.

It's not like I was doing anything more important. Only an asshole would skip out on something like that.

[just trying to minimize the compassionate aspect of this, yep yep. Linda may have been the closest thing she'd had to a friend at home, but Hazel still isn't comfortable with the idea she's going above and beyond for anyone.]

[Oh, so she's one of those, hmmm?]

Still. Not everyone would do something like that. Especially for someone already gone.

She was stuck either in my motel or around where her body had been buried. She wasn't exactly going anywhere.

[yes, she's one of those. and she's deliberately smudging the meaning of his reply to keep this nonchalant and a not-big-deal.]

And most probably would have left her there as well.

Only because they probably would have never seen her. It takes a lot of energy for a ghost to manifest.

You seem to know a lot about the supernatural.

It's my business now, you know? And once you're in the middle of that shit you pick up on stuff pretty quickly.

True. It can be very surprising how easy it is to pick up stuff like that when you're forced to.

[Something KID knows from experience. Although his dad had sort of left instructions on how to be a magician, the Phantom Thief aspect had been a little bit more abstract.]

Well, I mean, it's that or die. So only the people who succeed end up able to hang around and talk about it later.

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