“It’s better for everyone that way,” Thor explained. Zeus watched the road again, not deigning to answer. “You have to be cool with not knowing the future. “It’ll happen when it happens,” Zeus snapped. It came to me then that he wasn’t a man to have empty sex, either. Zeus didn’t say a lot, but his words had serious heft. The kill you made a little twang in my chest. And if you deviate from the story we develop for you or the rules for the money we set, we’ll hunt you down and kill you.” And we’ll send your cut of the money to you somehow. Right afterward, we’ll send you home with a plausible story that I don’t want to have to work on right now. We’ll hold up our end of the agreement by taking down another of your boss’s banks. But you were in a position to help us and you came through, and that means something. “We took a leap of faith to trust you,” he continued, “and as you can imagine, it’s not something we would have done normally, just pick up a stranger. Don’t try to get that information, understand?” “Don’t ever ask us where we’re from or how we got into this, and you can never know our names. “A few ground rules,” Zeus said suddenly.
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