advised as he shifted his body ever so slightly in order to conceal his right arm from the old man. He slowly placed his right hand under his computer desk , feeling around for the scalpel taped to the underside of the piece of over-priced furniture. 

“Is that so, you pompous ass? Please enlighten me - where oh where did I go wrong?”

“You went wrong with Janelle. You need her too, you’ve had your hooks in that family for decades…”

“What of Janelle?! Underbrink shoved her off her own balcony. Not my first option, but it did the trick. Surely you were able to revive her from such a minor mishap,” Van Nostrand fired back impatiently as Grimaldi didn’t even blink in the face of the heightened levels of agi...

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