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[argueandadjudge]

You've begun to have doubts. I know it. I can tell by your thinking, by the same tender look both you and Mrs. Reid share when you look upon me. [Reid cannot pretend that he doesn't hate it or her, everyone for cosigning themselves to resignation. For doubting his judgement and that insistent ache coming from somewhere behind his stomach that has so rarely led him astray in the past.]

But if we are to work with one another you must be on my side. I can have it no other way. You must believe as I believe and give no quarter if you intend for our partnership to last. All is not lost. I know -- [He ducks his head, shielding himself and his hope, as fragile as a spider's web quivering in a summer's breeze but still, somehow, enduring, beneath the brim of his bowler hat.] ... All is not lost.

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[adjudgement]

I...confess, I hardly expected to see a doppelgänger here.

[He can empathise with the sentiments, however. Pitying expressions, shaking heads behind his back - he is fair tired of them now, and reliable support is what he desires.

Especially since denial is not just a river in Egypt.]

It is markedly difficult to muddle through single-handedly.

[argueandadjudge]

It is indeed. And precisely why I need this person, this dramatist to listen to what it is I have to say. [Assuming an agreement can be reached given time and circumstance. There seem to be some niggling doubts troubling both parties at the present time.]

[adjudgement]

[Ah, but there's the rub.]

The trouble is in persuading them.

[ontheotherhand]

[There's two of them. This is fan-fucking-tastic.]

I did not sign up for this.

[argueandadjudge]

[The good Captain should thank his lucky stars it isn't Drake he's dealing with.]

I like these circumstances no better than you, Jackson, but here we are.

[ontheotherhand]

[Oh, he does. Every day.]

That's funny; I was under the impression that one of us has the ability to change them.

[Hint: It's not Jackson.]

ohhh I was hoping you would exist!

[numbersnfigures]

[Have a man with the same name. Maybe he's your great great grandson? Maybe his mun is just silly.]

Most muns aren't amenable to our demands. They have control, you know.