[Foster hesitates, briefly confused. That isn't where he thought this was going--he had a dozen or more possibilities, laid out and--that wasn't one of them.
Lambert is asking him to perform a service that would render Foster himself obsolete in this equation. Not that he wasn't already--Lambert has the book, after all. He's just--well. Accessory.
Still, that's pretty bold. If practical. So he's being eliminated entirely, is he?]]
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Lambert is asking him to perform a service that would render Foster himself obsolete in this equation. Not that he wasn't already--Lambert has the book, after all. He's just--well. Accessory.
Still, that's pretty bold. If practical. So he's being eliminated entirely, is he?]]
I.... can do that.
[It comes out careful. Wary.]