“Look, honey, you went through a lot of trouble to find me, and trust me, I know what that means.” That they were out of time, out of options, out of hope. She was a last resort, the kind of person that people heard of through a chain of rumors. When people came to her, they were willing to give anything. Whatever they had left, they’d hand over to her because they were desperate, and she would happily take it all. The rumors would have told them as much. They’d have heard that she was a ruthless, unhinged, greedy creature, who cared for nothing but herself. Everything she did was for her own benefit. The jobs she agreed to, the payment she took- it was all to make herself more powerful. She wasn’t about to waste her time with someone who wasn’t going to be of benefit to her. “We both know you’re out of options. You really going to back out because I tell you things might get a little messy? That’s stupid. You’re getting what you want. Why does what happens to anyone else matter?”