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[ On the one hand: he's right. Even more so in the aftermath, as she's felt more and more like chaff. On the other: nobody talks to her like that. ]

do i know you?

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Not personally, I should think. Not yet! But, of me? I should hope.
Unless you are the type to value ego over opportunity.

[ he's not exactly a quiet or subtle presence, scarlet and boisterous as he is. ]

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[ Purposefully ignoring the first part of the text: ]

that depends on the opportunity.

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Well, considering you have been treated as the scraps attached to a man being used to hurt another woman, at the hands of some other man... I might say the opportunity is "to never be treated that way again".

A mantra that I am quite passionate about.

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and you'd offer it to a stranger?

[ A short answer, maybe, but a concession in that she hasn't pushed back against any of the rest of it. ]

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Your experience is not strange to me.

[ And that might be both as much and as little he'll ever be willing to say about it. That he's known restraints and bitter humiliation and what it's like to be cast in a role he'd never asked for by sheer virtue of who he associated with. The loss of control over an identity. ]

And you seem like you would accomplish something interesting, given the proper opportunity.

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[ Interesting. Not an answer she's inclined to immediately trust, but— not one she takes for granted, either, when it's hardly the type of thing she thinks of men or gods as being so willing to say. ]

what do you want from me, in exchange?

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The equal opportunity.

I am not well-liked. You are, and in such a short time. I think adjusting my image would be beneficial.

[ to what end, he will not say. ]

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so you want me to be your pr team?

[ Actually, a more important question: ]

think you can take directions?