“That don' matter. S’all about puttin' on a good show. The unbalanced fights, they jus'… add to it." Carefully choosing of tamer words is just as much of a struggle while disgust curls hot in his gut. "People wanna see that kind a’ struggle.”
And then her question comes – ‘us’, she says, and he can’t tell if she uses it search of solidarity or only because it’s the appropriate pronoun – and he shrugs, a loose bob of a shoulder. Too casual for the subject at hand.
“Maybe.” It might not be reassuring, but it is what it is with so many variables at play every time they’re hurled into some new twisted playground. He can’t give her the answer they both want with any sense of certainty. “The last thing I expect is a fair fight even between people like us, but, the way I see it? Them ‘superpowers’ ain’t gonna help much if someone gets the jump on you. An’ out there, anythin’ can happen.”
All it takes is for a Gamemaker to get bored for the landscape to shift and new threats to be introduced.
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And then her question comes – ‘us’, she says, and he can’t tell if she uses it search of solidarity or only because it’s the appropriate pronoun – and he shrugs, a loose bob of a shoulder. Too casual for the subject at hand.
“Maybe.” It might not be reassuring, but it is what it is with so many variables at play every time they’re hurled into some new twisted playground. He can’t give her the answer they both want with any sense of certainty. “The last thing I expect is a fair fight even between people like us, but, the way I see it? Them ‘superpowers’ ain’t gonna help much if someone gets the jump on you. An’ out there, anythin’ can happen.”
All it takes is for a Gamemaker to get bored for the landscape to shift and new threats to be introduced.