[quote=Gremlin]
"It’s strange, but after that, they started to let me into some of their secrets. I’ve been working with the Masters, you know. Not in everything, certainly, but they trust me. After a fashion, in the case of some of them, but they do find me reliable. Enough to entrust me with some little jobs here and there. And a shop at the Bazaar. And some consideration at Christmas. A paperweight, once. But if they knew…" He takes a sip of wine. His scarf curls comfortably around his shoulders.
"They trust me now. Think they’ve reformed me. And perhaps they’re right, in a sense. Certainly, I’ve aided them in their schemes. Propped them up. Saved them from revolution. And started robbing them again, right from under their noses. They don’t even realize that they’ve been stolen from, that their own thefts have been turned against them."
"Someday, they’ll take me into their innermost circles. And I’ll betray them. Steal their most precious thing at their very moment of triumph."[/quote]
"You’d betray them?! And after they’d given you a paperweight! The cheek of it, sir!
"In truth, my main concern is self-serving - the rarer a book is, the less chance I have to read it. The rest is just window dressing to sway the argument. "
The lady looks at the cat under the table. "I’m afraid the dinner portion of the evening has long since ended. The staff were ill inclined to continue serving after the our earlier rambunctiousness. Dessert may still occur, but the party is winding down."
edited by pillbox on 11/7/2016