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The third day after I got here I walked into a clinic on the edge of the underground and got a job from a guy with a skin condition - don't know the clinical name, we'll call it green scales - who told me he heals with the laying on of hands. Since then, I've found out he only lays on his hands in exchange for a fragment of your soul, which suited

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[eiremagic]

Oy.

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Yiddish, or are you trying to get my attention?

[eiremagic]

You don't return your fucking phone calls.

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Didn't recognise the names.

[valentineluke]

Instead of whining, go topside and work there.

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What part of this are you taking as a complaint?

voice;

[7thborn]

Nice to know you're alive, at least.

voice;

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Exhibiting all the symptoms of it.

voice;

[7thborn]

Hanging around the Underground probably won't help with that, Chase.

voice;

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It's not as bad as it looks. Having sewn up half the tougher bastards down there helps with being left alone.

[voice]

[as_damaged]

And here I'd thought you must have just changed your phone number.

[voice]

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[There's a long pause. He remembers (or is it a new feeling?) hating the way this device works, the way it can just switch and someone's voice or image hits you like a suckerpunch.]

If I'd done that, they might have remembered to bill me.

[voice]

[as_damaged]

Much better to leave people wondering.

[Worrying. She's not going to say that, though.]

[voice]

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[He takes the implication, unsaid or not.]

From my perspective... it took me a while before I understood that you wouldn't think I'd gone with the curse. But, yeah, I'm not sure wondering wouldn't have been better.

voice;

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[Hello, you sound small but not yet worryingly familiar.]

Oh yeah? Which ones were you having trouble with?

voice;

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You're right, that was a big one. Do you know what an anaconda is?