[ Here his voice is a trifle drier, a degree cooler, and that rule chafes a little rawer because he wants to ask. Knows full well Nate's yet to discover the full extent of Sam's bullshit and Rafe's involvement thereof, that he swallowed down the whole poison pill story his brother fed with him a smile, but even so... Nate had to have known, hadn't he? He couldn't really have believed that a second Dismas cross would pop up without Rafe right there and waiting to get his hands on it too.
But he's caught in the rules they're both stuck playing by, and stows the question away for some later date outside the Ferryman's earshot. ]
Oh, I had a few chats but. You know me, Nate. [ A casual shrug, like he isn't stuck as a rich man's method actor understudy for Phantom of the Opera. ] No secrets to tell when I keep all my cards on the table.
[ Excluding, of course, the information he's holding onto Sam to hang above his head. Then again that's not his secret, is it. ]
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[ Here his voice is a trifle drier, a degree cooler, and that rule chafes a little rawer because he wants to ask. Knows full well Nate's yet to discover the full extent of Sam's bullshit and Rafe's involvement thereof, that he swallowed down the whole poison pill story his brother fed with him a smile, but even so... Nate had to have known, hadn't he? He couldn't really have believed that a second Dismas cross would pop up without Rafe right there and waiting to get his hands on it too.
But he's caught in the rules they're both stuck playing by, and stows the question away for some later date outside the Ferryman's earshot. ]
Oh, I had a few chats but. You know me, Nate. [ A casual shrug, like he isn't stuck as a rich man's method actor understudy for Phantom of the Opera. ] No secrets to tell when I keep all my cards on the table.
[ Excluding, of course, the information he's holding onto Sam to hang above his head. Then again that's not his secret, is it. ]
Surprised to see you got yours off, though.