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    "Sorry I'm late," Toni said brightly, as she slouched into the chair opposite Hope van Dyne in the corner of the restaurant. "You have no idea what I had to do to get out of that shareholder meeting early."

    Hope smiled one of her thin, not-quite-there smiles. Perfect bob, perfect makeup, perfectly tailored pants suit, perfectly manicured hands opening a leather menu. "Not a problem." Perfect lie there too. "I know what that feels like."

    "Grats on your... rising share price?" Toni hazarded, having never been particularly good at small talk, especially small talk with people who weren't engineers. Since the morning had been a shareholder meeting, Pepper had strong-armed Toni into a pants suit of her own, though her thick black hair was a tangled, shoulder-swallowing mane by now, and she hadn't quite managed makeup. Makeup tended to melt off Toni in awkward smudges.

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