“I’m sure I can change this if I use the program and insert a chapter.” Jaded said, her accent dark and deep.

Windwalker snapped her head around and warned, “No killing, Jaded!”

“Oh pour l’amour of Hades!” Jaded snapped back, “I could fix somethin’
in a hurry if you’d just let me. I’m good at pumping them out, better
than the alter ego.” Jaded said darkly with a hint of sarcasm.

“Did you miss my whole ‘meaning of life’ speech back there?” Windwalker asked in her serious tone.

“Well,” Jaded swung her legs back and forth below her ‘O’, “I might
have slept through a sentence or two of it. Why? Did I miss something
important?” She asked with her usual tone, checking out the Windwalker
from the corner of her eye.

“Several somethings as a matter a fact!” Windwalker crossed her arms,
and began to teeter on the curved bottom of her ‘O’. Deerskin boots
were not ideal footwear for such locations. “Besides,” she gave Jaded a
smirk, “I thought you were enjoying all the chaos.” Jaded shrugged
thoughtfully, she slid a pair of green tinted Oakley sunglasses onto
her eyes.

“Oui. I am,” Jaded allowed, “but a death would really move things
along. There is so much to do with someone after someone they love
dies. No one ever got that, it opens up the whole storyline, and you
can introduce new characters.” Jaded scoffed, with a grunt.

“Torture can be just as much fun. And suffering,” Windwalker said in a suspiciously understated way as she savored the words.

JadedRogue raised one eyebrow, then the other. “And you would know about that how?”

Windwalker stretched out her arms, gripped the top curve of her ‘O’ and
began to do chin-ups. “Did I ever tell you what I did to Steve Jaffe?
Before I dropped him off the cliff, that is?” Jaded licked her lips and
bit the inside of her cheek.

“Um, no,” Jaded eased her laptop shut. She wasn’t sure whether
Windwalker was about to tell her a story or make a not very veiled
threat. She wanted to not give her any reason to do the latter.

“I dragged him all up and down the roadway for about half an hour. The
best part, though, was seeing the look on his face when I dangled him
over the side long enough for him to realize what I was going to do.”