[Gently, even if she knows he won't ever believe that, because he has so little faith that people might actually like Donny. As if the person behind Atlas is somehow so terrible that his friends would stop being his friends because of it.
She wonders what they might think of that train of thought, because there's something almost insulting in it, but she decides not to point that out.
Instead, she gives him a slightly arch look, as if to wonder what on Earth she has to do with his problems with Atlas, but it can't hurt to answer.]
I'm opening a store.
[With a nod to the papers all over the desk, the organization that's involved in that. It's a balance because it's legitimate, it's something honest instead of taking the often easier, criminal route.
Maybe it's not exactly what he means, but she doesn't know what else to say. She doesn't need to find a new balance, not really.]
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[Gently, even if she knows he won't ever believe that, because he has so little faith that people might actually like Donny. As if the person behind Atlas is somehow so terrible that his friends would stop being his friends because of it.
She wonders what they might think of that train of thought, because there's something almost insulting in it, but she decides not to point that out.
Instead, she gives him a slightly arch look, as if to wonder what on Earth she has to do with his problems with Atlas, but it can't hurt to answer.]
I'm opening a store.
[With a nod to the papers all over the desk, the organization that's involved in that. It's a balance because it's legitimate, it's something honest instead of taking the often easier, criminal route.
Maybe it's not exactly what he means, but she doesn't know what else to say. She doesn't need to find a new balance, not really.]