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[ewestmarch]

Hey! Are you listening?

[Emilia knocks on the communicator for effect.]

I didn't authorize being recorded in that swamp.

Where are the lawyers around here?

Comments

[travelagency]

If you took us up on the offer to go out to the swamps, then surveillance was a very open part of the agreement.

Perhaps next time you will hire a lawyer beforehand so that he will read the very simple agreement for you in a way that you might understand.

[ewestmarch]

Don't get smart with me, you tin can.

[travelagency]

Then be more intelligent yourself and stay informed terms and conditions. Especially when they are obvious. Not to mention the drones were not exactly inconspicuous.

[impossibilities]

Excuse me, Mr. Jeffers, she does have a point... especially since some of us may be from worlds where such written things are not... ah, as common. Myself, originally from a place where written words are rarely used, verbal agreements are normal and the good word of a man is paramount. [The blush in her voice is almost painful.] It was very embarrassing...

[timesbureaucrat]

Lawyers? Why in heavens would you want one of those around? They're far more trouble than the worth of them. I've never met a lawyer I could trust. You'd be better off putting your well-being in the metaphorical hands of a Creeper.

[ewestmarch]

Because every place where people gather they attract lawyers and prostitutes, and I want to sue someone.

[timesbureaucrat]

Ah yes, one an ancient profession esteemed by some hominid cultures, the other a group of people who will sell out their morality for money. The latter are, of course, the lawyers.

[Narvin hadn't always had such a poor opinion of lawyers, but Darkel had rather soured him on legal interpreters.]

[vengeance_driven]

I hate to agree with him but lawyers have been terrible people in my experience.

[You know, tearing off the hood of his car or car doors and things in fits of jealousy.]

[ewestmarch]

Terrible people you pay to be terrible at somebody else, yeah.

[ewestmarch]

You come up with that all by yourself?

[timesbureaucrat]

What, do you not think me capable of a sense of humour?

[He absolutely did borrow it.]