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[secondhandsome]

Hey there, you've reached... um... me. Yeah. Leave a message!

Well, that sounded smoother in my head... Damn it.

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[a_sin_for_him]

That is true. Though...how long did you attend college?

[Because it hadn't sounded like he'd been working for that bastard of a man for very long...]

It's hard to believe it's been nearly a year already.

No, it requires a great deal of context, otherwise you simply sound like the universe's most prolific serial killer.

[secondhandsome]

Not that long, just a couple of years ago. Well, plus one now. Kinda had to, ah, rush into the first opportunity for a lot of money that came along.

[And that worked out so great for him.]

God, it sounds so bad. Saying it was mainly self defense sounds like a really shitty excuse.

[a_sin_for_him]

...Timothy, how old are you? I had assumed...well, not the age one's usually just a year or two out of college...

It's fine. I've known plenty of nice people who were labeled 'serial killers' just because of their body count. Sometimes people have reasons.

[secondhandsome]

Wait, how... old did you assume I-- [He stops. And thinks about it. Oh. He looks like... yeah.] Oh. Right.

[It might be one of the biggest things in his life, but still, sometimes he just... forgets.]

Ha... yeah. I mean, one of my best friends is an ex-assassin. It just... happens.

[a_sin_for_him]

Oh, I don't know. Thirty something, I suppose. Let me take a guess, as history tells me I can figure this out...you're only in your mid to late twenties, aren't you?

[Because of course he is. Just like Scar, who's hard life and damaged face had added a decade to his appearance.]

My first husband was deemed a serial killer by the state. He was a vigilante, taking out members of a corrupt military. Specifically those responsible for slaughtering our people.

[secondhandsome]

Technically I think one would qualify this as early to mid, rather than mid to late. I keep forgetting I don't... really look my age.

[Ha ha... ha......]

Geez. That's... It's easy to just put a label on it, huh? Not care about the reasons or context...

[a_sin_for_him]

...Are we the same age?

It is. He was a brown desert man killing state soldiers, of course he was just a serial killer....not a victim of near-genocide trying to take whatever justice was left.

[secondhandsome]

You sound more surprised about that than the fact that I've killed a shitload of people. I'm just... I'm just gonna point that out.

[What is their relationship.]

That's... fucked up. Really fucked up.

[a_sin_for_him]

It's more surprising. I'm used to finding out people have violent pasts.

My world wasn't a very nice one, either.

[secondhandsome]

I mean... I cant say anything when it's the same for me.

[Nevermind what is their relationship.

What are their lives.]

Starting to seem like most of them aren't...

[a_sin_for_him]

It's...somewhat nice, actually. Knowing we're the same age, more or less. We started down the same path at the same time.

No, I don't think they are. Some are just worse.

[secondhandsome]

Yeah... It kind of is, when you put it that way.

Sliding scale of bad. With a bunch of good people thrown in them. I mean, I used to think my place wasn't so bad, uh... once.

[Ha ha. Once.]