[No, for once Dist is right, damn him. Van may as well be fresh out of the Order's military academy, for all the resources he has at the moment. It's intolerable. It would be enough to make another man desperate; desperate enough to make open threats instead of veiled ones. Desperate enough to do something... uncalculated.
Van is not that man. Not just yet.]
Why don't you tell me what you want? [It's as good as a blank check; an unspecified favor for this one little bit of information. It's certainly as good an offer as Dist will ever see from Van. It's a better offer than most people can ever hope to see from Van. But he knows that he never really held any more sway over Dist than greed could provide. He's going to have to be a little... generous.]
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Van is not that man. Not just yet.]
Why don't you tell me what you want? [It's as good as a blank check; an unspecified favor for this one little bit of information. It's certainly as good an offer as Dist will ever see from Van. It's a better offer than most people can ever hope to see from Van. But he knows that he never really held any more sway over Dist than greed could provide. He's going to have to be a little... generous.]