[But she doesn't overtly object, at least, and she moves on to cleaning the chamber of fouling.] But you always did have good instincts.
[Or maybe he was just lucky. Hard to say.
She pauses for a bit, sighing as she regards the trigger assembly.]
Hakim isn't the endgame, not really. He's just a mid-level gun-runner working with Talon. I want his bosses. Putting a wrench in his operations might draw them out.
[A shake of the head.]
But enough about me. [She glances up at him with her eye.] A dead man like yourself has a lot of time to account for.
[She leans back on the couch, hands in her lap.]
What happened at the Swiss headquarters?
[It's not strictly necessary for him to answer - she got the general idea from the news reports, but there are always details left out of those.]
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[But she doesn't overtly object, at least, and she moves on to cleaning the chamber of fouling.] But you always did have good instincts.
[Or maybe he was just lucky. Hard to say.
She pauses for a bit, sighing as she regards the trigger assembly.]
Hakim isn't the endgame, not really. He's just a mid-level gun-runner working with Talon. I want his bosses. Putting a wrench in his operations might draw them out.
[A shake of the head.]
But enough about me. [She glances up at him with her eye.] A dead man like yourself has a lot of time to account for.
[She leans back on the couch, hands in her lap.]
What happened at the Swiss headquarters?
[It's not strictly necessary for him to answer - she got the general idea from the news reports, but there are always details left out of those.]