BOUGHT BY THE BEAST
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"They will be expecting you to react defensively, to appear threatened."
"Then I won't appear threatened,"
"How will you appear?"
I looked at the document one more time, at the four-hundred-year-old statute that Drax had found and polished into a weapon, at the careful legal architecture of someone who had spent months building this specific structure for this specific moment.
"Interested," I said. "I'll appear interested. Because if they want a hearing on whether this bond is real, I am genuinely curious to watch them try to argue that it isn't."