[It sure won't!! The mess just keeps on growing and spilling on over into every aspect of everyone's collective lives! Bad.
But as loathe as he'd been to step back into the proverbial (and soon to be literal, whoops) line of fire, of course he won't back down now. Not when there are lives on the line - the lives of the people he's promised to protect.]
A city outside of these.
[Give him a second - he sets his plate down on the desk, moving around it to the drawer he'd shoved papers into earlier. He withdraws a blank piece, scrawling a few city names out onto it. After, he crosses a few off.]
These ones- [Passing it over.] -were probably used for selling people or finding people to sell. Both, maybe.
no subject
But as loathe as he'd been to step back into the proverbial (and soon to be literal, whoops) line of fire, of course he won't back down now. Not when there are lives on the line - the lives of the people he's promised to protect.]
A city outside of these.
[Give him a second - he sets his plate down on the desk, moving around it to the drawer he'd shoved papers into earlier. He withdraws a blank piece, scrawling a few city names out onto it. After, he crosses a few off.]
These ones- [Passing it over.] -were probably used for selling people or finding people to sell. Both, maybe.