XRiley: I can get the confession thrown out and probably file for a judge who isn't incompetent. And both Etienne and the victim were involved in street racing, which oddly enough I have a contact for. But what I really need is Etienne talking.
Cory: So I take it you won't be looking to trade this case off on me, after all?
Riley: I can't, Cory. You'd smash him.
Cory: Fair enough. I've never had much patience with the weepy ones. You did it, you got caught, time to put your head down and do what the nice lawyer tells you.
Riley: I may still ask for help. You know I don't take many murders.
Cory: Anytime.
Riley: ... they don't always do it, you know. Sometimes they're innocent.
Cory: Riley, honey, what does it matter? These people are washed-up trash on the lakeshore of civil society. They're floaters. On the off chance they're innocent of what they got done for, they're still guilty of something. That's how they survive. Personally, I like the dirty ones. Knowing you just talked the court around to 'not guilty' for a client who's blood up to the elbows? There's nothing better than a win like that.
Riley: ... How do you sleep?
Cory: Far better than you. Funny old world, ain't it?
Cory: So I take it you won't be looking to trade this case off on me, after all?
Riley: I can't, Cory. You'd smash him.
Cory: Fair enough. I've never had much patience with the weepy ones. You did it, you got caught, time to put your head down and do what the nice lawyer tells you.
Riley: I may still ask for help. You know I don't take many murders.
Cory: Anytime.
Riley: ... they don't always do it, you know. Sometimes they're innocent.
Cory: Riley, honey, what does it matter? These people are washed-up trash on the lakeshore of civil society. They're floaters. On the off chance they're innocent of what they got done for, they're still guilty of something. That's how they survive. Personally, I like the dirty ones. Knowing you just talked the court around to 'not guilty' for a client who's blood up to the elbows? There's nothing better than a win like that.
Riley: ... How do you sleep?
Cory: Far better than you. Funny old world, ain't it?
When last we saw.... Riley -
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The King is dead, but not the war: for honor, for glory, for the relics of the Shattered Plains. Slave and general alike are bound to the war machine. But the king-killer and his long-dead magic will change everything....
May 4, 2012
Sorry for the lack of newsposts. Things have been quietly crazy for a bit here, in good and bad ways. One of the better ways -- this is my daughter's first birthday. She had great fun smearing strawberry shortcake all over herself and everyone else had great fun playing with her toys and smacking each other with her balloons*. It's been a wild, weird year, but I wouldn't trade it for anything.
*(For the record, everyone at this party save the birthday girl was an adult. In theory, anyway.)
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