Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-5999656-20161216022828/@comment-5999656-20161219003540

Zanipher took a deep sigh after hearing Diaboli's words, but allowed herself to be dragged along nonetheless.

What he said made sense. If she were still in charge of the DS, and this coincidental meeting had occurred, she would have alerted her men immediately to trail him and probably divert his path into a side passage where they could subdue him. She would have gotten personally involved in the capture, and probably would have done no small amount of gloating in his face in the process.

Then again, if she were still CEO, she wouldn't be in a corner coffee shop in the first place.

Ugh, but she could feel the edges of that ego creeping up again. She tried to console herself, remind herself that no, she wasn't feeling impatient because she was one of Vale's strongest mob bosses, and took orders from only a select few. Nope, she was huffy because she had no patience for -

"A music shop? What person doesn't just illegally download songs nowadays?" she said. "Unless you're into collecting?"

Zan considered Diaboli's words again. True, she was being really nice, that was because she really did want to apologize for what had happened before. But now that he had taken it in stride, maybe it was time to take off? Before her ego got the better of her? After all, this conversation wouldn't last forever.

Zanipher had always considered her job to be like that of playing an individual sport. Take fencing. Once you put on the uniform, pull down the mask, everyone else becomes an enemy. From the second you step on the strip, you have to be ruthless against everyone if you want to win. And then, when it's all over, you go back to being polite, unless you're too petty to keep your feelings hidden.

She liked that dichotomy. But it had to be maintained. There was nothing to gain from being overly friendly before a bout, or being standoffish during a chance meeting after a tournament. And this was skirting that line rather messily.

So she remained rather unimpressed by the store, and by Diaboli's sudden change of emotion.