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This is Nate, you know what to do. I'll...probably get back to you.

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[pocketspa]

[Why do you think he's even offering, Nate? Rule one of getting on a job as a street urchin- make yourself valuable. Everyone needs a chef, and if you take on kids, they eat less. People want you when you're useful.

He knows. He really does.]

Pssh, yeah, I know that. But listen, just keep that biz in your back pocket, alright? She comes at you, knows something she shouldn't, put us on the dial. We'll have her down before you even know she's on ya. Trust me, babe. Nothin' we can't handle.

[Taako doesn't think Nate knows enough of him in a fight to know that he always goes away from danger. So he shouldn't catch that Taako being so willing to go towards it for him is something new. Shhhh. It's fine.]

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[Unbelievably touched by a gesture and an offer that Nate is sure Taako doesn't want him to point out, he nods quietly and accepts without being a royal shit about it. He believes they're more than capable of handling her even if he hasn't seen the extent of their powers, but in spite of the melodrama the twins tend to low-ball their own skills on the daily.

Maybe to keep people underestimating them. It's not an unlikely strategy.]

Thanks. [He manages, swallowing.] I mean it, seriously.

[pocketspa]

[See, there we go Nate. Don't make him explain it, just get it. That's a good way to go about things.

Don't make him think about the connection that needed to be there to assume such things. Just. Just don't.]

Yeah, don't worry about it.

[It's not like he cares about you or anything, baka.]

Anyway, I'm gonna keep dunking on this dude. Wanna share answers so we can really flip him out?