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[oddswerebad]

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[oddswerebad]

Yes.

Being ignored was always safer for me.

[Getting his own way is just completely foreign, especially if he was noticed.]

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[routemistress]

You didn't have a timeship. I always had an escape route. Only reason I didn't get killed much, most of the time.

Plus it's amazing what you can get away with when the distraction's loud and surprising enough. We'd've made a great thieving team.

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[oddswerebad]

[He had never had an escape route.]

Or when people are distracted by their own expectations.

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[routemistress]

ha yes I love when they do half the work for you.

i put a lot of work into being underestimated.

actually, now i think of it, i know a lot of unarmed combat techniques specifically for smaller people up against huge bruisers. is anyone teaching you any of that?

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[oddswerebad]

I usually don't have to put in a lot of work into it, but there's not much of a gap.

[People see that he's small and quiet and scared of almost everything - and all of that is true. That they sometimes underestimate how far he'll go or what his powers mean doesn't change that.]

I don't fight much.

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[routemistress]

and you sound like you'd rather not start now. I shan't push it, lovey, just the offer's there if you change your mind.

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[oddswerebad]

Thanks.