[He sighs and slides his hands back through his hair.]
It's not about what you owe me. It's that I believe in getting on the good side of the people who serve your drinks and guess what? This will make the guy who called me really happy.
[And also Steven (sort of) likes Lanque (some of the time) so he'd very much rather see the kid home safely than in the kind of trouble he'd end up in if he wandered off in this condition, but he can't tell Lanque that. He knows how boys like Lanque think and they automatically suspect anything done out of seeming altruism--and he can't think that the troll version is much different.]
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Not that, Lanque--for fuck's sake.
[He sighs and slides his hands back through his hair.]
It's not about what you owe me. It's that I believe in getting on the good side of the people who serve your drinks and guess what? This will make the guy who called me really happy.
[And also Steven (sort of) likes Lanque (some of the time) so he'd very much rather see the kid home safely than in the kind of trouble he'd end up in if he wandered off in this condition, but he can't tell Lanque that. He knows how boys like Lanque think and they automatically suspect anything done out of seeming altruism--and he can't think that the troll version is much different.]