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[maced_eggs]

New Year's Resolutions

-Stop drinking
-Stop ingesting foreign substances
-Stay away from fucking vampires and clowns
-Learn how to take care of a rabbit
-Figure out the fuck I want to do with my life
-See Georgie and Daisy again
-Be nicer to Gwenny
-Bathe more regularly
-Read a book

Comments

[changeitroundsome]

That why you gave up car hustlin'? Or is that still something you do?

[Oh, he has not forgotten meeting Little Mason, nope.]

[maced_eggs]

[He blinks in surprise, and then shrugs]

Still do it from time to time when I need money and stealing is too much work.

[changeitroundsome]

[Amusedly.] You get any better at it?

[maced_eggs]

Not really. Sort of a fall back plan when stealing from the dead don't pan out.

[changeitroundsome]

Ain't much of a fallback, mon ami.

[maced_eggs]

Works for me. I don't mind it. There's nothing harmful in it as long as you can run fast.

[changeitroundsome]

Or carry a big stick.

[maced_eggs]

I'm the nonviolent type. Don't like hitting people.

[changeitroundsome]

So am I. [HAH!] But it don't hurt to have a little backup.

[maced_eggs]

I only hit people in very special circumstances.

[changeitroundsome]

[Facilier grins, leaning forward, genuinely curious.]

And what are those special circumstances?

[maced_eggs]

[Mason doesn't smile back, looking a little sad, a little stern]

I don't like it when men hurt women.

[changeitroundsome]

[Facilier doesn't much care either way, that pesky inability to empathise with others getting in his way.]

Noble enough reason to fight back.

[He makes a note not to mention one of the people he wants dead most in the world is a woman, and he would happily smash her skull in, should she ever come to the Barge.]

[maced_eggs]

I just don't like to see it, is all.

I think I might be here because of that.

[changeitroundsome]

What? They made you an inmate because ya'll don't like women getting beat up on? Sounds more like a warden thing, if you ask me.

[maced_eggs]

Because I killed someone who was beating up on a woman. I killed Ray, an' he wasn't slated to die.

I don't know what that means. Reapers killing people who aren't supposed to die.

[changeitroundsome]

Ah.

Upsets the blances of things a little, don't it? I know the Loa would be pissed as hell, if they were in charge of Reapers.

[He's still not convinced they AREN'T.]

They'd make you pay somethin' awful.

[maced_eggs]

I think this place is their way of making me pay.

[changeitroundsome]

Wouldn't be surprised. [He makes a face.] As punishments go, this place is cruel and unusual.

[maced_eggs]

It is, isn't it? An' you can't do much to someone who's already dead.

[changeitroundsome]

No. Can't exactly threaten them with their lives when they've already lost 'em.

[maced_eggs]

Nah.

Makes me wonder if I'll ever be going back.

[changeitroundsome]

Think we could stay here for the long haul?

[Honestly, despite the lack of power, he would prefer that than going back to New Orleans, where he's less than nothing.]

[maced_eggs]

[Mason, too, prefers the Barge to being a reaper. He gives a weak laugh and a shrug]

I dunno. I can tell you one thing, I'm not graduating anytime soon.

[changeitroundsome]

[He chuckles.]

That makes two of us, Mon Ami.