Day 264 - Thursday, September 11th
[Max sleeps; has as he'd thought, he achieves nothing, and he's not even a small-talk source of comfort or somebody to soothe Ash's nerves before his two AM meeting with yet another Chinese teenager. Something about Chinese teenagers seems to always spell trouble for Ash, and now he's in a mess involving no less than four of them.
But Max doesn't move. If Ash comes to see him, setting that pill counter and the note about the smoothie, he may notice he hasn't so much as shifted a finger. Ash has had to turn to painting, but there's no need to lock that room before, or even for a long while after. The only one in this house besides him is a breathing corpse.
But Shawn's ready and waiting for him at one, prepared to be decked out a wires that Ling's likely to hang him with if he finds out about them.]
But Max doesn't move. If Ash comes to see him, setting that pill counter and the note about the smoothie, he may notice he hasn't so much as shifted a finger. Ash has had to turn to painting, but there's no need to lock that room before, or even for a long while after. The only one in this house besides him is a breathing corpse.
But Shawn's ready and waiting for him at one, prepared to be decked out a wires that Ling's likely to hang him with if he finds out about them.]
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But either way, I don't play the good guy.
The turtle in the text messages. Tell me about him.
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Likely, one of my brothers, pretending to be an agent of himself. Or themselves.
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You're working with the guy, and you don't know his name?
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I also have information that your sex life was the same. Anyone as long as they were important, as long as they paid. Don't act as if you don't know this world just because you've moved up in it beyond those limits.
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What information do you have that might actually be useful?
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Didn't you ever wonder how he ended up there with no parents or guardian to sign off on treatment rather than jail time?
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[ Ash asks the question without delay or surprise. ]
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[ Ash isn't impressed. ]
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[ Though Ash wonders if he's faked a kidnapping against Sing. ]
And I don't actually have sex with every guy who looks at me. That's the same kind of petty whispering you'll hear from a girl's locker room, and you wrote it into your plan.
[ Ash has more vials. Most of the rest can wait until later. For now, he moves to check Wu's pockets. Hopefully, he has the key card on him. ]
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He checks the pockets. ]
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I'm not going to give you a lecture on confirmation bias, but I didn't stab your dick as a sexual thing. It was an asshole move the same way stabbing your eye would be. I don't want to fuck you so sit down and worry about the actually dangerous stuff.
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[ He'll have to get access to that room himself. Too bad. It'd be nice if something was that easy.
Having Shawn for backup would make things go better. As much as he wants to rush in and make sure Max is safe, he knows they won't hold him there.
The other guy comes in as Ash leaves. On the way back to the bar, he tries Yut Lung again. ]
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For now, once he makes it to the bar, he tracks down Shawn. ]
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He'll find out once he's at the bar. Instead of going for Shawn, he'll look up the news to see if it mentions Yut Lung or how it happened. ]
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