"What do you mean no?" It had taken me a bit to track down Hanlon, and when I had I was entirely disappointed in his response as you could imagine. Donel had decided not to come along when I told him I was going after Hanlon, having figured it was best not to be involved with him, and I couldn't fault him because I didn't want to have to deal with Hanlon.
"No its the opposite of yes I'll help you." He was seated at a cafe in a town on the coast, he didn't have a companion, but there had been a chair pulled out as if he was waiting for me.
"Why not?"
"Because Trezlan I'd prefer this world be wiped out at this point, it apparently longs to be destroyed more so than anything else, also its good for business, people in fear of their lives buy more weapons." I was so angry with him, because he was completely correct. The world did seem to want to explode, it did seem to want to be wiped out, and people would purchase his weapons in the end, but just because he was right didn't mean I had to accept it! I got up from the table and flipped him off (petulance is the one reserve I always have). Hanlon just gave me his same stare. It was not my most productive meeting. I ran into Donel up the street where he was waiting for me.
"Well is he going to help us?"
"No, he'd rather the world burn."
"So we're screwed?"
"No it means we wing it, because that's what I do, I wing things," Donel had a look on his face that told me he didn't think winging it was exactly a great solution, "Don't worry Donel I've lived all this time, I can do this."
"It's not you I'm worried about." You know Donel for being a bad ass warrior librarian was a bit of a downer. I mean come on things always work out for me! True not everyone I bring with me survives, but in my writing they do.
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