[He huffs out a short breath—something meant to be a laugh.] I don’t even know the man and I suspect that to be a terrible impression. [It sounds like it should be. Not that Rip is going to offer up much better.]
Mick would take a different form of offense. [Rip clears his throat for this. An American accent he can do, but Mick’s voice has a particularly gravelly quality as well. Like Rocket, he purposely speaks low, trying his best to sound as if he’s speaking around a bunch of pebbles.]
“Who you callin’ ugly, English?”
[He shakes his head—that might have hurt a little to attempt (or it was just terrible and Rip doesn’t want to admit it).] Of course, I’m trusting you to keep this conversation in confidence: Mr. Rory is actually here, along with two other members of my team. [And in that Rip is fortunate; he hasn’t been brought to this place alone, as it seems Rocket has.
What he has to offer isn’t the same; Rip knows that. Yet he continues anyway:]
I’ll have to introduce you at some point. You might get on well.
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Mick would take a different form of offense. [Rip clears his throat for this. An American accent he can do, but Mick’s voice has a particularly gravelly quality as well. Like Rocket, he purposely speaks low, trying his best to sound as if he’s speaking around a bunch of pebbles.]
“Who you callin’ ugly, English?”
[He shakes his head—that might have hurt a little to attempt (or it was just terrible and Rip doesn’t want to admit it).] Of course, I’m trusting you to keep this conversation in confidence: Mr. Rory is actually here, along with two other members of my team. [And in that Rip is fortunate; he hasn’t been brought to this place alone, as it seems Rocket has.
What he has to offer isn’t the same; Rip knows that. Yet he continues anyway:]
I’ll have to introduce you at some point. You might get on well.