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"I represent the heir to the Hanlon fortune." The guy was dressed in a nice slick suit, the kind of suit you order in pieces and pay a lot of money to have sewn up. He wore it well, even if the man inside it seemed slimier than a sewer.

"I wasn't aware there was either an heir or a fortune." Hanlon wasn't a real person, not like you (well maybe are you real either?) or me, I doubted he had children. I mean the real Hanlon probably did once, but the current incarnation certainly did not.  As to his fortune, again I don't know where Hanlon got his weaponry (no factories anymore no delivery, they just seemed to appear out of thin air) nor what he did with the money he aquired. So there could be a fortune, but I doubted very much there was an heir to it.

"Irrelevant, my client would like to meet with you to discuss a business proposition." The way he said business proposition was one of those saying one thing meaning eight hundred different things.

"Let me guess you need me to go somewhere else to meet your client." He smiled and produced a train ticket and a ticket for a boat, gods do I hate boats.

"It's all been arranged Mr. Lorentino, he's even willing to pay for your shops downtime since you appear to be without a staff to keep it open." True Nidget was doing Nidget things, and despite having turned my shop over to other people in the past, I wasn't doing that now.

"All for a meeting with someone who might get money later, you'll have to forgive me Mr.?"

"Simons."

"Mr. Simons, I'm a bit leery, and I have had some issues in the past with these kind of deals going south very fast."

"I assure you Mr. Lorentino you'll have the time of your life, consider this a vacation with some business on the side." Being that I'm a liar all the time, this felt like eight different kind of lies. I was intrigued that they sent such a confident liar to trick me into a meeting. Afraid, but intrigued. So of course I accepted. I shouldn't have, recent/past/every experience I ever had said this was a bad move, but I love making bad moves, helps keep me alive. Well not really.  Also no spider monsters today either (you totally thought I wouldn't keep doing that, YOU THOUGHT WRONG!)