[ Hei hesitates, wondering how much to tell her. He doesn't see the need to share the gorier details about his work. There's no payoff in that kind of honesty when you lie and kill for a living. He could just snap that there are things he can't talk about. He can convince himself that is a kind of honesty in itself. But is it really? On the surface, yes, but one level deeper it seems like the worst kind of lie -- the kind shaped like the truth for the benefit of one person, and in order to more effectively deceive another. ]
[ Maybe it's time to revise that policy. ]
[ Composing himself carefully, he tries to find words for his turbulent thoughts. ]
I'm in the information business. For the triads. [ Information extraction, to put a fine point to it. Because knowledge is one currency that never goes out of style. ] I heard rumors that a gang down south had jumped some mover-star. Bolin had told me he'd be in that neighborhood. It wasn't hard to put two and two together.
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Date: 2014-08-13 10:38 pm (UTC)[ Maybe it's time to revise that policy. ]
[ Composing himself carefully, he tries to find words for his turbulent thoughts. ]
I'm in the information business. For the triads. [ Information extraction, to put a fine point to it. Because knowledge is one currency that never goes out of style. ] I heard rumors that a gang down south had jumped some mover-star. Bolin had told me he'd be in that neighborhood. It wasn't hard to put two and two together.