Re: Passages: Bruce B and Matt M
We're all real. [He said it with a nod.] Though that gets into some philosophical type things, but I think we can all safely say that if we're here, we're real. [His eyebrows went up at the tone, the stubbornness, the irritation from Matt. The disdain. He hadn't had someone direct that at him for a while - at least not that level of it.] I'm not actually in the pay of anyone right now. And the last time I was... [He shrugged.] I've been on a barter system for a while.
[A quick glance at his bag, where whatever "tools of the trade" were stashed.] No, I'm a little smaller than that. I don't have a van. [It took until he was saying that to put the pieces together.] An ambulance? You know someone that has an ambulance? [His eyebrows were up again, though with the signs of battery, it wasn't that much of a surprise that Matt would have encountered someone with an ambulance. Whether through good fortune or through someone calling 911 for a person obviously badly beaten.] Anyone with an ambulance is going to have access to more than I do. I don't even have my friends money or labs to help me out anymore. I can still help, but it seems like you might already have someone better on offer than what I can do at the moment.