[Letting a guy think I was someone I wasn't...letting him hand over a whole lot of cash? Yes. This did sound like a very efficient con-man. One-hundred percent not an imbecile. This 'Peter Quill', whoever he truly was, would be useful, as an ally, against the Accuser. El Durante resettled himself and, without looking away, he explained himself as frankly as he was able.
Which, you know, was really, really frank. Dunno how you measure a thing like that accurately, but it'd be off the charts. In a manner of speaking. Not a literal one, of course. Unless they developed some sort of Geiger counter of abstract conce--oh, never mind.] It is a matter of principle. The only figure of authority that I've ever respected was my father. To continue doing what I was, before I was arrested, under the orders of people that I distrust is against my personal standards.
You must be getting something out of this. [Not a question. A very figuratively plain-faced assumption.] Something that would make it amendable to serve these bureaucratic, pencil-pushing fools. [A brief nod, to the two-way glass pane. You know. As if Quill needed clarification.] It is blackmail. Or information, perhaps.
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Which, you know, was really, really frank. Dunno how you measure a thing like that accurately, but it'd be off the charts. In a manner of speaking. Not a literal one, of course. Unless they developed some sort of Geiger counter of abstract conce--oh, never mind.] It is a matter of principle. The only figure of authority that I've ever respected was my father. To continue doing what I was, before I was arrested, under the orders of people that I distrust is against my personal standards.
You must be getting something out of this. [Not a question. A very figuratively plain-faced assumption.] Something that would make it amendable to serve these bureaucratic, pencil-pushing fools. [A brief nod, to the two-way glass pane. You know. As if Quill needed clarification.] It is blackmail. Or information, perhaps.