- (Mirror --> Parley): Your boss does have a penchant for the dramatic, doesn't he?
- (Parley --> Mirror): If it's loud and sensational, he does seem predetermined to do it. In front of the press.
- (Parley --> Mirror): Naked.
- (Parley --> Mirror): And on fire.
- (Mirror --> Parley): <texts picture of Cage in smouldering tattered remains of boxer briefs>
- (Mirror --> Parley): It's not QUITE naked, but it is quite a view.
- (Mirror --> Parley): He does make my job easier, though.
- (Parley --> Mirror): I don't suppose there's a chance I could offer you a handsome sum of money to turn the other way. Or a sandwich.
- (Mirror --> Parley): I do believe they're going to arrest him. What an absolutely delightful campaign strategy.
- (Mirror --> Parley): What kind of sandwich are we talking?
- (Parley --> Mirror): There's a deli up the street that serves a grilled chicken, Swiss and avocado on rye.
- (Parley --> Mirror): One might just come your way.
- (Parley --> Mirror): But you know what I want.
- (Mirror --> Parley): A good reuben?
- (Mirror --> Parley): We could do better than this, you know.
- (Parley --> Mirror): Like cake? Or should we meet in a back alley for some quiet garroting?
- (Mirror --> Parley): I am not sure any garrotes would be up to the task of that impossibly thick neck.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Cake might be a good start.
- (Mirror --> Parley): You didn't say what it is you wanted, though.
- (Parley --> Mirror): I think I'll go with cake.
- (Parley --> Mirror): Cake is what I want.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Some days do just kind of call for a cake.
- (Mirror --> Parley): He punched a hole in the truck, by the way.
- (Parley --> Mirror): ... With his fists?
- (Mirror --> Parley): Yes. He's threatening to arrest the incident commander now.
- (Mirror --> Parley): It's almost charming.
- (Parley --> Mirror): I don't suppose it's the same commander that ordered the tank through the wall of the church.
- (Mirror --> Parley): You know, I believe it is. The police are arresting them both, it seems.
- (Parley --> Mirror): It's like the blind leading the blind. Only with more property damage. And one of them is a government official.
- (Parley --> Mirror): I almost think they deserve each other. I'd say we should just set up a park where professionals build sandcastles for these people to knock over.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Do you know, this church has been here since 1786. It took them three years to get permission for wheelchair ramps because they were not allowed to change the building.
- (Parley --> Mirror): And somehow the humans caused more property damage than the incendiary pyrokinetic.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Law Enforcement has really been outdoing themselves this year with their public image.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Of course they will. Do you think they'll send him a bill for the truck? Those things are not cheap.
- (Parley --> Mirror): I'm not sure you can bill someone for damage to you're vehicle incurred while running that person over with said vehicle.
- (Parley --> Mirror): In front of the press.
- (Parley --> Mirror): While on fire.
- (Parley --> Mirror): While driving through a church full of refugees.
- (Parley --> Mirror): I would make a cheap shot about the vagaries of sensationalism in the media. But I can't actually give you credit for this one, can I.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Actually, you can. Much like if the police shoot someone while you are committing a robbery, you can get charged with their murder. Damage committed during the commission of a crime you're still liable for.
- (Mirror --> Parley): And despite how excessive their tank might have been, it's not so much a church of refugees as it is a church of wanted criminals. He was standing in the way of actually lawful arrests.
- (Mirror --> Parley): The pyrokinetic and his friends have been branded terrorists, not refugees. With that label there's very LITTLE the government can't do these days to those who try to help them.
- (Parley --> Mirror): ... He went into the church to encourage the mutants to turn themselves in. Tell me he didn't turn on the authorities instead.
- (Mirror --> Parley): As I said, he punched a hole in the truck in order to attempt to arrest the mission commander. Tell me exactly how you think the government will see that?
- (Parley --> Mirror): They'll see it as a prime example of mutants needing stricter regulation and parameters. They do band together so.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Law enforcement has been so much more unruly lately than mutants have, though.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Well. I suppose there was that minor incident at City Hall.
- (Parley --> Mirror): It's not impossible this whole fiasco could push for stricter laws against mutant congregation.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Wouldn't that be delightful. I wonder what that would do to businesses that cater specifically to that demographic. Say, schools, or clinics.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Institutes.
- (Parley --> Mirror): Osborn will be perfectly livid. It's been a while since he's had a proper rampage.
- (Parley --> Mirror): I do wonder what is says about a situation when an incendiary pyrokinetic mutant terrorist causes less wonton destruction than the humans trying to subdue him.
- (Mirror --> Parley): I can't imagine it will hold up long, at the least. Unlike many things, free association has been tested and held up as an essential part of the Bill of Rights.
- (Mirror --> Parley): I believe what it says is that the humans have lost control of the situation.
- (Parley --> Mirror): You can't lose something you never really had. Was I seeing correctly? Were they also firing on one another?
- (Mirror --> Parley): It did appear that they were.
- (Parley --> Mirror): Interesting how they didn't seem to have any minds to speak of.
- (Parley --> Mirror): This is going to be fun.
- (Mirror --> Parley): You noticed that, hm? It did make the mutants look better, though, not to take the first shots.
- (Parley --> Mirror): I've seen it before, once. So many voices in this world, isn't there?
- (Parley --> Mirror): As far as I'm concerned, humans were shooting each other. Misguides as his actions may be, Luke Cage was stepping in to intervene before they managed to kill their own.
- (Parley --> Mirror): In the mean time, buy me a coffee. I have some spinning to do.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Mmm. It's a shame your concern doesn't hold much weight in the media.
- (Mirror --> Parley): Pumpkin spice lattes are in season now.
- (Parley --> Mirror): I'll worry about weight after I see what can even be salvaged. With Cage arrested, if I cam get his reputation dropped from terrorist sympathizer to village idiot, it'll be a Christmas miracle.
- (Mirror --> Parley): I bet by Christmas there'll be something equally delicious. Egg nog lattes?
- (Parley --> Mirror): With extra whipped cream. Let's be decadent. And some variety of... loaf.
- (Parley --> Mirror): I am fond of am fond of a good loaf.
- (Mirror --> Parley): I suppose YOU won't have time to loaf, yourself, for a bit.
- (Mirror --> Parley): I discovered a coffee cake.
- (Mirror --> Parley): It doesn't have coffee in it.
- (Mirror --> Parley): So much cinnamon, though.
- (Parley --> Mirror): There is always time to loaf.
- (Parley --> Mirror): text me the address where I can find this coffee cake. I'll meet you there.
- (Mirror --> Parley): <texts an address. and, a picture. of v. cinnamony coffee cake.>
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