Teddybear

"O...kay."

"I hope so."

"Great. And a safe couldn't accomplish the same goal because...?"

"Yes, of course." The old man was going to die anyway. It's not like anyone would investigate.

She huffed a laugh. "I mean, why does the video game controller need to be gaurded? Why is it special?"

"Yes, I'm sure." He wasn't going to buy a living being. In the eyes of morality, and the law that was wrong. If he could prove to the courts that ...

"I may give that some consideration." Perhaps he could just put the old man back to sleep.

"If I may be blunt, why is it necessary to hire two people to stare at a video game controller for a week?"

He dipped his head. "Thank you." He truly had no great need for him, it was simply far less likely that he would get beaten if Kivvien was working with ...

"Right." She was almost disturbed at the implication that he 'vibed' with her.

(to clear the bad vibes, look at the kitten in the spoiler. Her name is Jasmine) ( ) "So you have done no vetting?"

"If you haven't a particular use for him, I could use a second pair of hands in my experiments."

(do not speak the name of the devil unless you wish to summon him to your sharpest but most shitty guillotine) She winced. "Where did you find the person I'm ...

"There's plenty we can do. Lots of preparation to be done, the writing of transmutation spells, the beginning of the solutions we need to break down the mucus and leave ...

So he didn't do any googling. "Carlson Ringly." Maybe he wouldn't know who that was. Unlikely, but possible. (Think b*zos level of well-known. Just a really, exorbitantly rich guy)