<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=200072.msg10175837#msg10175837">Quote from: Cold Heritage on 27-06-2014, 00:56:22</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Uncle Marco is pretty good at reading people. It came with the job. And everything that he had learned pointed in the direction of Thumbs' honesty. Thumbs' expression to Rose's back is not exactly a friendly one, but there was a bigger conundrum that precluded engaging in petty hatred at the moment.<br/><br/>"Look, my books are crooked as anyone else playing the game. I cut myself a bigger piece than they'd show, and I cheat my guys here and there so I come ahead. But you always got yours in full - I cheat Rose or Drugstore, sure - at least, I always paid the first guy who came collecting for you in full." Thumbs said, and it was the truth. "And you know, I sent a guy of mine, Patches? I sent him to your place to bring this up with you, but uh. Well. Some Dogs came by that afternoon with his dick and his nuts in a box. So I got the message, right?"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>"Say that again?"<br/>Marco has suddenly gone tense.<br/>"Who's the Dog that brought it?"<br/>For some reason, he had the nagging suspicion that it would be some Top Dog's flunky.<br/>"Three things ain't possible in this story", Marco points out. "First, nobody who comes for justice is refused access to me. Unless I'm doing someone I like. Then he or she just has to wait. And I haven't been told that."<br/>He puts up a finger.<br/>"Second, nobody is cut down because he wanted to see me. If anyone does that, it's maiming or murder...and I'm not going to be lenient."<br/>Another finger goes up, like a V sign.<br/>"Third, there's only one person who can allow his balls to be cut off. Me! And I haven't done that in...months, I think. So you'll produce that box at once, Thumbs..."<br/>No finger goes up. Instead, Marco slowly clenches his fist,then turns to the Dogs that are with him.<br/>"And you're going to tell me whether Top Dog is actually doing such things-you're going to tell me now! Heads are going to roll either way, but if you lie to me, your heads will be among them."<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">https://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=60326</div></div>