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NAME: JONES HANDLE: @ALIAS PICTURE: Middle finger, face out of frame.

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[sunmon]

i like the sound of that.
oh before i forget
do you have a contract right now? your dominant is fine with this, right?

[grunge]

He will be.
It's already in writing that he won't stand in the way of any business I want to open which includes keeping his hands off my money.

[sunmon]

you prepared for this.

[grunge]

I would've done it sooner. Bullshit got in the way.

Besides I'd rather do it with you now that we're not contracted. I don't need my livelihood tied up in quarterly renegotiations.

[sunmon]

you could avoid that with a longer contract too, you know.

[grunge]

And you're saying that based on whose experience?

[sunmon]

vanessa is a submissive and she runs venia. i'm pretty certain her dominant owns it.

[grunge]

Good for Vanessa. I've never been.

Speaking of contract length, is yours up yet?

[sunmon]

it's not.

[grunge]

How many days?

[sunmon]

[ she could keep dodging, but the end result is going to be the same. alina sighs. ]

i renewed it.

[grunge]

[ Knowing Alina, she'd take Jess's alarm as an accusation. It's a damn good thing she asked now rather than in person, then. ]

What happened?

[sunmon]

it's going to sound stupider if i say it.

[grunge]

I don't think you're stupid.

[sunmon]

you don't have to lie.

[grunge]

I think you're a lot of shit, Alina. Stupid isn't on the list.

[sunmon]

[ why isn't she angry? why isn't she pointing out that alina is stupid to be doing this to herself over and over again, for not being willing to let the darkling go?

and then she realizes, again, the worse thing. the one she'd talked to crais about, failed to navigate with betty. ]

you know, i realized something.
it's not just the darkling.
it's me.

[grunge]

Just tell me what happened.

[sunmon]

i lost a bet.

[grunge]

With him?

[sunmon]

others first.
but yeah.
at the scratch. on that sport night or whatever.

[grunge]

Were you drunk?

[sunmon]

very.
it wasn't just that. i think reggie and the others did something with the drinks.
i've been just drunk before. this was more. i felt ... i felt like a different person, almost. i was confident. adventurous.

perfectly unafraid of the darkling.

[grunge]

So were you drugged and he took advantage of you.

That's not on you.

[sunmon]

well, the city doesn't see it that way.