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( the exchange is ... honestly, a bit what natasha expected. give and take. she's more than happy to just seem as though she's guarding five, acting as his shield for this. messalina doesn't appear to be playing the game, as it were, but she's not naive enough to think that she isn't. if anything, it could be that both she and five are outclassed here. that they're being played by someone much better than they are at this —

that's always a risk, in any negotiation.

still, her eyes slide to five at his last comment. mass murder of the entire senate? like that was ever an option. )

Passing, relatively speaking.