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"Do the seht?" I asked

"With you acting as a thorn in et the answers I need"

"Auy It must be so hard for you"

To that, his lips twitched "I've known cold-blooded killers ouldn't speak to me that way"

"Hard for them to speak to you with condescension when you and them are on the same level morally"

"And you're better thanaround private property?"

"I' for me"

Again, that lip twitch "Are you going to beto have a conversation?"

"I see both"

I got an actual chuckle out of hilide over oosebumps in its wake

"I don't doubt that But for the sake of saving both of us soravation, how about you drop the clap backs and give ht answers?"

"Why would I give you what you want? I have nothing to gain here"

"Your freedom"

"Right Because anyone who has come down to this basement has made it back out"

"Actually, no one's been in this basement"