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[osreborn]

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[osreborn]

Having any trouble walking?

[enigmaestro]

You -- Norman!

[SHOCKED GASP.

SO SCANDALOUS.]

Why must everyone assume I take that position?

[osreborn]

The position of the deputy?

[enigmaestro]

Is that how you'd use your theoretical deputy, Norman?

[osreborn]

We're talking about how you do yours.

[enigmaestro]

Depends what face we put on him.

Let's use your face. Oh, he'd be on his knees groveling.

[osreborn]

You have ever the vivid imagination.

[ Very dryly. ]

[enigmaestro]

I'd have to give him credit, though. Rather hard to grovel with a leather muzzle strapped to the face.

[osreborn]

That's enough.

[enigmaestro]

He can squeeze out a few moans. Just barely.

[osreborn]

Nygma.

What are you after?

[enigmaestro]

Your discomfort.

Mission accomplished.

[osreborn]

Annoyance, not discomfort. There's a world of difference.

[enigmaestro]

You have that in common with Mitchell.

[osreborn]

I have nothing in common with Mitchell.

[enigmaestro]

Falsehood. [Blithely:] You're both men, presumably.

[osreborn]

If you want to get nitpicky.

[enigmaestro]

You're both control freaks. You're both secretive. You're both "retired" from something a little more flamboyant. You're both repressive. You're both obsessive.

You both depend on me to deliver.

[osreborn]

I don't depend. I can deliver to satisfaction without any help. Certain to my own.

Besides, he doesn't interest me.

[enigmaestro]

But does my interest in him interest you?

[osreborn]

Should it?

[enigmaestro]

Why, yes. You should find everything I do fascinating.

[osreborn]

Caring about what you do is very different from caring about the people you do it with.

Circumstances depending.

[enigmaestro]

Which are pending? Is ours?

[osreborn]

Is it ever?