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[white_widow]

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[white_widow]

I should refuse to tell you, as a matter of professional, but...

I picked the lock. Come now, Kate Bishop, was that really not obvious?

[coolcostumes]

oh duh
right.

well, don't do that!
again.

[white_widow]

I think you would like what I would do as an alternative much less.

[coolcostumes]

you could just knock and i'd let you in.

[white_widow]

Sometimes you are not there.

[coolcostumes]

and you have to be there when i'm not there?

[white_widow]

If I knock and you don't answer, how do I know if it is because you are not there and not because you are unconscious or bleeding out or tied up by goons and gagged until I come in and see?

[coolcostumes]

well true.

but i could also just be out getting food! or something! and now i'm gonna come home and have a heart attack because you scare me.

[white_widow]

I feel like there is a very simple solution: stop being scared.

[coolcostumes]

are you saying you aren't scared of anything?

[white_widow]

No, certainly not.
I am talking about this one specific context.

[coolcostumes]

well, random people just appearing in my apartment seems to be a thing that happens more often than i'd like. it's not something i prepare myself for!

[white_widow]

Random people? Who else?

[coolcostumes]

oh there was just another girl a little while ago. she was just sitting in the dark in my apartment. i feel like i need new locks.

[white_widow]

You have needed new locks for the entire time I have known you. Really you should just move, but at minimum new locks. Yours are terrible. Five seconds to pick.

[coolcostumes]

if i get new locks, you'll just pick those too!

[white_widow]

Yes. But I'm very good. Better locks would keep most people out.

[coolcostumes]

so what, you wanna be the only one that can pick my locks?

[white_widow]

It sounds possessive, when you put it like that.

[coolcostumes]

that's what you implied.

[white_widow]

And I would have left it at an implication.

[coolcostumes]

not me. i call it out.

[white_widow]

Alright. And what is your end goal, in calling it out?

[coolcostumes]

no end goal.

just bringing it to your attention. wasn't a bad implication.

[white_widow]

Hm. Okay then. Now we are both paying attention to it.