Slowly, Sally smirked. "I have an idea."

Tempting. Oh, so tempting! Mostly, he wanted to see at what point she would cry "uncle" if he ever accepted one of her flirtatious propositions.

"Tell ya what," Steelbeak told her. "Dis date doesn't go well 'n' I'll pay ya a visit once I get back." Which would probably be sooner than later.

Sally perked up considerably. "You promise?"

"Yeah." While he may have done a great many things in his life that no man would be proud of, he did endeavor to keep all the promises he made. Am I really that desperate?

"See you soon," she said with a grin before grazing his arm with her hand and continuing down the hall.

He wasn't sure if he should be offended that she thought his date was going to be a catastrophe, too.

In that event -- in that likely event -- he knew he would be that desperate. Steelbeak never imagined he'd be adding anything starting with the word 'statutory' to his long list of infractions. Heading for the elevator, he wondered at what point in his life things went so violently awry.

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