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"So, Gage" Mason took a sip of his drink, Gage leaned against the wall, "yeah?" He looked at the pack leader unimpressed.
"How's travelling into the commonwealth with boss like?"
Gage looked around them, in the distance the overboss were talking to a trader, he licked his lips and opened his mouth, but Mason interrupted, "is he as hard boiled over here and he is there?"
Gage rose his eyebrows, "well-"
Mason continued "or does he lie on his stomach and expose his stomach to every sad settler?" He snorts and takes another sip.
Gage thought about it for a while, "overboss is... silver tongued." He settled on, Mason made a face "listen, whatever you two do in the bedr-"
"No! Mason, I mean he lies a lot and gets away with it, he's persuasive" he felt his face threaten to blush.
"Oh, well that's..." He eyed Gage suspiciously, "so what does that have to do with it?"
"He got a lot of settlements... some for you and the other gangs, and some protected from... raiders."
Mason sat upright "that motherfucker."
"No, no, Mason-" he had to save this quickly, "he's lying to them, he persuade the settlers, minutemen, railroad- you name it, he got them fooled" he cleared his throat, "they believe he's their saviour, their... jesus, I guess"
Mason leaned back into the chair, "huh... alright. Why?"
Gage closed his eyes, dreading "he says-"
"Because if I'm nice to both sides of the coin, I'll get double amount of what I'd normally get" the overboss leaned on a pole close to them, having overheard the last part of the conversation. "If I had just helped one side." He smirked.
Mason grinned, "you fucking genius"
Sole survivor smiled and acted humble, "what can I say? I'm a helper."
Mason pondered for a bit, "say boss... if it came down to it-" he locked eyes with the sole survivor, Gage smirked.
"I'd choose the settlers of course."
Mason's smile faded, he stared at Gage, but he was smiling, ah...
"Silver tongue... huh" Mason drank the rest of his drink and got up, "let's hope it never comes to that, right boss?" Mason left them.
"Sooo, what's up with you telling Mason about how amazing my people skills are?" Sole survivor winked, Gage took a deep breath "I said you were silver tongued, and he... thought it meant something else." He hated life.
The overboss snorted, "well, I'm curious on what he thought that looked like"
"Doubt he'd want to share."
"Hey"
"Yeah, boss?"
"I know somewhere I can put my tongue to use" he winked.
Gage rolled his eyes, but followed the overboss anyways.