[Listen, Maya, you gotta get used to it. Good-natured bullying is Mista's bread and butter. His bread and bullying butter. Obviously, his response to Maya's cheek-puffing is to puff out his own, even though he's not nearly as practiced at it and it's nowhere close to as impressive. This, if nothing else, feels familiar to him, this playful roughhousing.]
[Until she double-takes like that, and he remembers. Oh, yeah. Civilian. He shrugs, a loose, deliberately casual movement, and makes an mm-hm kind of sound.]
I mean, yeah. Security's serious in Dork Town.
. . . I, uh, worked for somebody pretty important, that's why. If somebody broke in, it'd be a big deal. Safety concern. [Due to the mafia. And crimes.]
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[Until she double-takes like that, and he remembers. Oh, yeah. Civilian. He shrugs, a loose, deliberately casual movement, and makes an mm-hm kind of sound.]
I mean, yeah. Security's serious in Dork Town.
. . . I, uh, worked for somebody pretty important, that's why. If somebody broke in, it'd be a big deal. Safety concern. [Due to the mafia. And crimes.]