( What in the world is psychology or its reverse or what is that, some social interaction? Not that he listens to an answer, if one comes; when the lid gives under Jimmy's knife-shoe attention and his own painful attempts to add leverage, he scrapes himself up to lean a shoulder on the lip of the chest. Then leans himself forward, so Jimmy has access to the hands behind his back, skin warm under Jimmy's hand where it rests at his shoulder. )
Would you now? Then you're exactly the sort of person we need negotiating the contracts we don't have.
( He says, and notes that response, because it both amuses him and is interesting. As the one who's argued, manipulated, and otherwise been in charge of his own contracts for himself and his packmate, he appreciates taking a lighting-struck turn of events and spinning it to an advantage that cost someone else.
Once his hands are free, he'll waste no time rubbing his wrists, and instead seat himself on the lip of the chest, then reach down and casually tear the rope from his ankles. What the manner of his being stuffed in a chest had done to restrict his strength might become... somewhat more apparent. )
in taverns where everyone is very, very drunk
( What in the world is psychology or its reverse or what is that, some social interaction? Not that he listens to an answer, if one comes; when the lid gives under Jimmy's knife-shoe attention and his own painful attempts to add leverage, he scrapes himself up to lean a shoulder on the lip of the chest. Then leans himself forward, so Jimmy has access to the hands behind his back, skin warm under Jimmy's hand where it rests at his shoulder. )
Would you now? Then you're exactly the sort of person we need negotiating the contracts we don't have.
( He says, and notes that response, because it both amuses him and is interesting. As the one who's argued, manipulated, and otherwise been in charge of his own contracts for himself and his packmate, he appreciates taking a lighting-struck turn of events and spinning it to an advantage that cost someone else.
Once his hands are free, he'll waste no time rubbing his wrists, and instead seat himself on the lip of the chest, then reach down and casually tear the rope from his ankles. What the manner of his being stuffed in a chest had done to restrict his strength might become... somewhat more apparent. )
We're out the window then, are we?