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[integrity]

Someone within this city is going to buy me a drink. Immediately. I prefer scotch, but really, anything will do. I also require a sledgehammer. Crowbars are also acceptable.

Your generosity will be repaid tenfold in both money, good will, and the feathers that I will be tearing out of my favorite down pillow. If you so choose to remain so, anonymous donations can be dropped off at my mailbox at the post office.

Remember: generosity is a virtue, not a sin.

x Crowley.

Comments

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[predominates]

What an inconvenience for you. Although it sounds suspiciously like a challenge.

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[integrity]

Care to rise to it?

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[predominates]

[ the magic words. ]

You have your choice from the following:

• Vodka
  
• Whiskey
  
• Rum
  
• Tequila
  
• Gin
  
• Brandy
  
• Wine
  
• Bourbon

Sorry to say there are no sledgehammers or crowbars. I don't think the tools I have will work for you.

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[integrity]

Bourbon.

What tools do you have in your possession?

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[predominates]

Neat?

Whips and crops and cuffs, oh my.

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[integrity]

... a dominatrix?

[STOP. EVERYTHING. This could be a possibly entertaining new development.]

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[predominates]

[ always such surprised reactions. ]

I'm beginning to wonder if I can call myself the one and only.

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[integrity]

Far from it, but I've never met one within the Port before.

Have you a steady business here?

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[predominates]

Well, if there are, they're not doing a very good job, are they?

Solid. But starting over does have its challenges.

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[integrity]

Apparently not.

I am suffering the same difficulty, as it were. Business -- and good help -- are both extraordinarily hard to find. Unfortunate.

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[predominates]

And what business are you in, if I might ask? I'm very interested to know if sledgehammers and crowbars are involved.

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[integrity]

Oh no, the sledgehammers and crowbars are strictly pleasure.

I own a business.

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[predominates]

Nothing says the two can't be one in the same.

[ says the dominatrix. ]

But what business is that?

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[integrity]

I orchestrate several transportation services during the Darkness so people don't die.

[Most of it is extraordinarily illegal.]

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[predominates]

[ Naturally. ]

How charitable of you. Business must be doing well then.

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[integrity]

So says my new house.

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[predominates]

You certainly know how to make a girl feel envious.

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[integrity]

[Ha.]

My deepest apologies.

Shall I buy the lady a drink, then?

[Crowley will torture Castiel for his credit cards back, nbd.]

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[predominates]

If you insist. But I thought I was the one offering the drink?

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[integrity]

I could extort someone in order to buy you one in return.

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[predominates]

Such measures to return the favor. Am I special?