[ ...Well. That's precisely not what he expected Nate to take away from all that. Rafe blinks in the dark, incredulous (but not) at the glaring naivete on display before him. ]
It's a word of mouth business. Word travels. [ Duh. ] Especially when the tales are as tall as yours.
[ Nate is barely a blip professionally, legally, but the stories around him practically make him a myth. Larger than life. Maybe the fuzzy vagueness, the maybe-he-is-maybe-he-isn't is what makes it more palatable than the hard evidence Rafe brings in year after year. He doesn't know. All he does is that in any circle, any measuring, he's still short of whatever it takes for people to take him seriously. ]
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It's a word of mouth business. Word travels. [ Duh. ] Especially when the tales are as tall as yours.
[ Nate is barely a blip professionally, legally, but the stories around him practically make him a myth. Larger than life. Maybe the fuzzy vagueness, the maybe-he-is-maybe-he-isn't is what makes it more palatable than the hard evidence Rafe brings in year after year. He doesn't know. All he does is that in any circle, any measuring, he's still short of whatever it takes for people to take him seriously. ]