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[osreborn]

(555 - 888 - 3010)

"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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[enigmaestro]

Did you more recently get ordained?

[osreborn]

I find priests worthless.

[enigmaestro]

Let's make no mistake -- you find most people worthless.

But not your immediate company, naturally.

[osreborn]

Naturally. I wouldn't waste my time.

[ A pause. ]

I had this idea about you, Nygma. Came to me in a dream, in fact.

[enigmaestro]

[Now that invoked some hesitation.]

What sort of dream?

[osreborn]

You were there. And you'd done something.

Returned to the scene of the crime, it seemed like.

[enigmaestro]

A dream is but a dream, Norman. A collection of the dreamer's subconscious continuum. That has nothing to do with me, aside from my position as the object of your obsession.

[osreborn]

Sometimes dreams may still be enlightening.

[ And Norman may just be more paranoid. Constantly paranoid. ]

You sounded nervous just now.

[enigmaestro]

Just now? Just -- at what word? What syllable?

[In a faked tone of concern:]

You're losing it, Norman.

[osreborn]

You paused.

I'm not. You have to have been calling for a reason.

[enigmaestro]

And perhaps that was a mistake on my part.

[The pause? Or the call?]

It's difficult to consider that you have not missed me, given our meaningful history.

[osreborn]

Should I take that to mean you were calling to finally arrange a date?

[enigmaestro]

"Finally"? How long have you been waiting for me to ask you to the prom, Norman?

[osreborn]

How long have we known each other again?

Well, not that long.

[enigmaestro]

First you accuse me of unlikely crimes, then you scorn me for procrastinating on your corsage. What is it you want me to do, Norman?

[osreborn]

I want you to tell me what you're calling for.

To check in, you said. Why?

[enigmaestro]

Because you really ought to have lost it by now.

[osreborn]

Says who?

[enigmaestro]

The only person who truly knows you best.

[osreborn]

So what is he basing this conclusion off of?

[enigmaestro]

Your own conversation, Norman, just listen to how you're talking. You sound like a paranoid old man.

[osreborn]

[ Irritably: ]

You called me. What is your game, Nygma?

[enigmaestro]

The same as it's always been with you, Norman. I'm helping you, I'm exposing your truth.

[osreborn]

I know you did something.

Don't think you won't pay for it.

[enigmaestro]

Then that's our forked road: agree to disagree.