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Formidable

Feet rooted to the ground, hands slack. He's not interested in firearms. Or the afterlife.

Challenging

Legendary

A dithering, anxious desperation to be liked. Are you this pathetic?

Formidable

Like a stray dog.

Heroic

He's just getting comfortable. In for the deep squeeze.

Challenging

Listen to yourself. Pure erotic cowardice.

Medium

A completely different person from her upstairs version.

Medium

She's about to start machine-gunning questions.

Medium

Her face resets, unnaturally fast.

Medium

Unsteadied her, at least.

Medium

She's very good. You're better.

Medium

Obvious bait, don't take it.

Medium

The silence plan has totally backfired! Clear this up, quick!

Challenging

Apart from when it's her detainees talking.

Challenging

You're beginning to suspect this woman has no copyediting experience whatsoever!

Easy

The watcher has abandoned his station.

Medium

Is it just you, or has he gotten... kind of cute?

Easy

The Liquidity Mage needs liquid.

Medium

A flash of lucidity as he takes you in.

Easy

Hard to tell if he's downplaying the labour trafficking, or just unaware of it.

Easy

Hard to tell if he's downplaying the imprisoning operation, or just unaware of its scope.

Challenging

He hasn't said her name in a very long time.

Challenging

That's it. Lecture over.

Medium

He's genuinely delighted you said that.

Challenging

Even through the drunken haze, you can tell he was impressed.

Medium

He's not lying -- it was all above board. Just morally on the floor.

Challenging

Stressed, liquid, junior? It can only be that hopeless fool hooked to the sex line.

Easy

Radiating with grubby intent.

Medium

If there is any kind of moral conflict churning below the surface, he does not show it.

Challenging

In his mind, magnitude is all.

Easy

A glimpse of steel submerged behind his bloated jowls.

Medium

If you squint extremely hard you can imagine him heading up a negotiation table.

Easy

You're not dealing with the sharpest anything here, in case that needs to be said.

Medium

He's working off a memorised list.

Easy

No part of him is even trying to actually pretend.

Easy

Absolute, unshakeable certainty.

Easy

But not dead he reckons, by the way his face curdles.

Challenging

Happiness, yes, but there's a restlessness too -- like she's uneasy being caught and held in this static photograph.

Easy

His jowels flap like a dog shaking off spittle.

Easy

Don't be fooled. He's making a mockery of you.

Medium

If this guy is a master of espionage he's playing an impressive bluff.

Easy

The big man was dozing off. Now he's trying to cover it up with a vulgar display of authority.

Legendary

He grins with the maniacal intensity of a man who thinks he's found a weakness in god's armour.

Challenging

He's no longer you, nor is he him.

Easy

Expression unreadable, as if you've caught her on the fringes of a dream.

Medium

This is a protracted suicide.

Medium

On the plus side: she's probably so psycho-fucked from this that she won't remember that you abandoned her.

Medium

He waves his hand in a circular motion, tracing the course of lost interest that will one day return.

Medium

True shock in her voice.

Medium

A sacrificial offering. Better than a pigeon.