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The outline of a man, his back and shoulders, spotlit in your mind -- before he disappears into the black, never to be seen again.

A man runs away in your mind, zig-zagging towards an unknown fate, but still very much alive.

The shake in her hand intensifies. She looks like she could be sick.

She looks like she could be sick.

Can't trust anyone in this world that you occupy. You are forever being deceived.

You remember the many times you have staked out a place, a person. All by yourself -- at all times, in all weathers.

Resigned, she sinks into herself, doing her best to swallow her pride.

Are you risking your cover just so you can feel cool for a moment? Try to have some sense.

That's the poetry magazine you got for Hauzmann. Glossy cover, pretty high-end.

That's the poetry magazine you have on you. Glossy cover, pretty high-end.

That's the poetry magazine you've heard about. Has its offices nearby -- or, at least, it did.

That's the poetry magazine you found in the book stand behind her.

It was bad, not horrendous, as that would make it memorable.

Here's a question for you: when was the last time you enjoyed your own line of work?

Hope all the stress and isolation and paranoia is worth it.

Overly defensive. Usually a sign of insecurity.

No doubt due to the security breach you enacted. An unfortunate knock-on effect.

Your little security breach and subsequent escape must have had something to do with it.

An attempted smile fails to mask the pain behind it.

Presumably because her whole life has been flipped around after her magazine was shuttered.

It was the title of the report lying around when he asked you to clean. It was in front of you the whole time.

That certainly wasn't there before.

Could be indicative of an underlying condition. No need to bring it up and scare her.

This is the woman the shrimping girl mentioned.

NO, YOU ARE HERE TO DOMINATE.

Don your persona. Do not sabotage this opportunity.

Few of the middle class residents of the Housing Campaign want to be seen openly making offerings or tending the shrine. Such things scream 'working class'.

It's customary to 'invite' the angel to the festivities -- to bless the union.

Maybe it was her husband's idea.

Or maybe you don't know your old asset as well as you think.

The stopper has gone brittle, covered in a thick coat of sticky dust. There's no way to remove it without getting fragments of disintegrating cork everywhere.

It belongs here.

The war has finally caught up.

Your vision darkens at its periphery.

It's as if the space was arranged to reject sharp cuts and high-contrast neon.

The Miracle Line.

The Miracle Line.

Melita won't like seeing that on your expense report.

He does not see the it in you.

He is genuinely surprised.

The slick, soft black silk slips through your fingers.

SWEAT AND MUCH STRENGTH HIDE THEMSELVES HERE.

They say, 'I'm corporate, but still hip.'

Them's cocaine binge shoes. The good cocaine.

His convictions may as well be carved from granite.

It has to come from inside. It's personal first.

Inherited from your mother. The only decent thing she ever actually gave you.

We're safe in here. All huddled up.

A casual, yet impressive assessment.

His shirt is low enough to expose a tangle of chest hair.

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