[he has to chuckle at that.]

Yeah, fair enough. I've got a few tricks up my sleeve, though.

[several tricks in the form of enormous dragons. even if they weren't real, they could attack with concussive force. not that he thought he needed it against someone like ann, who mostly just struck him as lost as opposed to dangerous. hopefully she wouldn't get lost in the wrong places, as already discussed.]

But I don't know about your intuition. Businessmen aren't the most trustworthy lot.

[and he'd be the first one to admit that. if she really had killed a god, maybe she had killed a few men in suits too.]