He nods, and then quirks an eyebrow. "Your boots?"
Amused, "Why not, yes."
"No, but they wanted to try," he retorts. "It took a demand of 75% and a walkaway before they'd condescend to offer you half your own earnings, and that should have been their initial offer. An agent's fee ought to be ten percent; fifteen if he's good." After a moment of consideration, he adds, "According to Lockhart, anyway."
"It wasn't less of a dumb animal five minutes ago when it was planning to attack us with fists instead of wings and possibly knives," he points out.
I just hope she doesn't snore. 9.9 Is that good news or bad news? n,n;; Eeek! Well, that's not the way people should behave if they want to be taken seriously by people other than cops. >:( If he needs it, he'll probably offer the low, low rate of keeping Rus in pickled eggs for a year or something. ;)