other life update: my novel is 54,500 words long which makes it the longest thing i have ever written here is a recent excerpt:
“Okay, let me just get this straight,” said Kaine. “You came here to kill me—”
“Well yeah,” Vex interrupted impatiently. “But then my contracter called a hit on me and borked the whole plan.”
“You could have led with that,” Kaine whisper-shouted. “Who hires a hitman to kill a hitman who hasn’t even killed the original mark yet?”
“I don’t know!” Vex said frantically. “Do you not take anonymous contracts?”
“No!” Kaine was whisper-shouting again. “I’m a consultant for the government.”
“Oh, well, sorry we don’t all have your standards,” Vex said, drawing out the “o” in “sorry.” She sounded very sarcastic.
“Okay, and again I say, you led with an ‘I’m here to kill you’ sort of like, villain bit, and now you want me to help you?”
“Well, when you put it like that it sounds bad,” Vex whined.
“That’s because it is bad!” The words came out in a shriek. “No offense, you have really de-incentivized my desire to help you at all,” Kaine said in a slightly calmer voice.
“But I did say we'd circle back to the killing you part,” Vex said.
“This really isn't the time for constructive criticism,” Kaine said, noting with relief that the train seemed to be slowing down. Finally. “But when you say things like ‘circle back,’ it does kind of seem like murder is still on the table. Not to mention, I don't know you from Haaga's left tit.”
Affronted, Vex opened and closed her mouth, looking first at Kaine and then down at her own chest. Whatever she was going to say next was cut off by the train coming to a halt, though Kaine was pretty sure she heard the words “saggy old bitch” across the enclosed space.
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