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"Norman Osborn. If you're calling about a job interview, hang up now and call [ business phone number ]. Otherwise stay on the line and leave a message. I'll get back to you when I can."

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[ A beat. ]

Falsehood.

Norman, you should know that isn't cute. When other people do it.

You're not my keeper, you're my opponent. On a good day. You're my favorite chess piece otherwise!

Oh, I don't know. There's a certain charm to it in tasteful doses.

[ AKA, once. ]

I'm your opponent when I'm not your predator.

As if this is a game of teeth? I'm no one's prey, no one's. Have I not proven my elusiveness? My stamina? Have I not recovered every single time?

Maybe I simply haven't finished devouring you yet.

You ought to be careful. I have poison for you, as well.

I have a high tolerance.

Do you even care how sexual you're sounding, right now?

Not really.

I thought you enjoyed that.

You and everyone else, it seems.

Perhaps because it's accurate.

I'm hardly whorish, Norman.

I didn't call you whorish.

But it's really besides the point.

Tell me you didn't think it.

Sounds like a nerve was hit.

Better that than something else, hm?

Is it?

I'd have figured better a face than a nerve, personally.

I wasn't concerned with a facial.

Maybe you should be.

Why, Norman? Are you going to give me a facial?

I think it does no harm to be prepared for anything.

Is -- [A beat, he rolls the words in his mind.] Is that a threat?

[ A long pause. He knows how this will ring, but he says it anyway: ]

No.

[A beat.]

But then, when aren't you threatening me? I suppose I can't really hold it against you every single time.

Indeed. It must get tiring.

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