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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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[seeress]

Oh, of course.
And you would have to arrange my continuing internship with my guardian, if that becomes a thing.

[osreborn]

Oh, it wouldn't be me. I'd pass you to someone in shipping and receiving, or maybe just bounce you to bringer of coffee. Children of people I don't care for don't get near any sensitive research.

[seeress]

Just because she called you a "villain".

[osreborn]

"Just."

[seeress]

It seems like a rather insignificant reason to hold a grudge over.
That's all.

[osreborn]

If she thinks I'm a "villain," Rose, I won't put up with her meddling in anything of mind that could be considered sensitive. That would just be foolish.

[seeress]

I think you're being paranoid.

[osreborn]

No. I'm simply not being stupid.

[seeress]

She does not have some sort of vendetta against you to carry out.

[osreborn]

You're already calling me paranoid.

[seeress]

Not to offend you, of course.

[osreborn]

You asked for my opinion.

[seeress]

And now I'm giving mine.

[osreborn]

Should I put my position into simpler terms?

[seeress]

She's a very nice woman.

[osreborn]

To you, when it suits her.

[seeress]

I don't think she has the ability to be as manipulative as you think.

[osreborn]

I think you're wrong.

[seeress]

Oh?
Is that so?

[osreborn]

Everyone has the capacity to be manipulative.

[seeress]

No, I don't think that's true.
Especially in this case.

[osreborn]

If I may be blunt. I don't care much for kids. My own children I manage to suffer the incompetence of because I believe anything carrying my genetics must carry in them immense potential that somehow most of them fail to ever utilize. But I persevere, by god, I have faith. Sooner or later, someone will prove themselves to be worth my legacy be they blood or not. I don't humor children that seem incompetent or intelligent or useless. There mere fact I am even bothering to offer you this internship means that I consider you intelligent enough to be worth teaching. Are you following me, Rose? Do you see me talking to the children around here? Other people's children are absolutely worthless to me.

[ Unless they can be used against them, of course. ]

[seeress]

[ about a two to three minute pause ]

Swoon.

[osreborn]

Satisfied?

[seeress]

For now.
Your smooth, ingratiating words have sufficiently sated me temporarily.