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Lodestar: Horny.
Maverick: **Snorts.**
Lodestar: You doing okay, Alessa?
Alessa: I’m fine, Star. I’m home. Some things have to happen for us to find our way. I know I’m where I’m supposed to be.
Lodestar: You’re a lot more accepting than I am.
Maverick: She is.
Alessa: I learned that wishing for things that are outside of my control is futile. But I know that you are different, Star.
Alessa: I know that very little is outside of your control and I think that makes it easier on me.
Lodestar: Because you know I’m handling it?
Alessa: Tak.
Lodestar: You got that right, sweetheart. I’m handling it. Hell, the leaders are handled. As for the rest, they’re going to get theirs from Interpol itself. We found how they communicate and now that we’re in, there’s no escaping us.
Maverick: *whistles* Interpol? You brought in the big dogs?
Lodestar: My grandfather, Anton Kuznetsov, did.
Alessa: Your grandfather is a Kuznetsov?!
Lodestar: You’ve heard of him?
Alessa: In our part of the world, we have sayings about the Kuznetsovs.
Maverick: What kind of sayings?
Alessa: It says a lot about why you are who you are now that I think about it.
Maverick: Hit us with the sayings, Alessa! I’m curious.
Alessa: The translations aren’t easy.
Alessa: In Ukraine, they say that the Kuznetsovs are spiders. They have webs in every corner of your house.
Maverick: Lol, definitely fitting for you, Star. You little spider, you.
Lodestar: Charming.
Maverick: ;)
Alessa: In Russia, it is more sinister. Less about spiders and more about saying their name out loud and it coming at a risk.
Maverick: Sort of like Candyman, Bloody Mary, or Beetlejuice, I guess.
Lodestar: I can believe that. I’d never heard of them though. I spoke with Russians about them too.
Alessa: They would not say anything. It is too ingrained in them to stay quiet.
Lodestar: Huh. I was working with Maxim Lyanov while I was over there. He never said dick about the name BUT afterward, when I got into shit, he tried to get me out of Anton’s clutches. I guess I owe him more than I already thought I did lol.
Alessa: He tried to take you? Physically? Or did I misunderstand?
