[Fourty-five leaves him a chance of success, at least. The phone request, though? Xu Shu outright hesitates when it comes to that request but, after a moment of thought, chooses to pull it out of his pocket and hand it over. All in all this is a terrible idea but the little device, which isn't at all fancy and perhaps one of the cheaper models you'll find out there, nonetheless has lots of silly little games on it (as well as more complex ones such as chess, for example) and bears a case with the image of a grey wolf engraved across. There really isn't anything much incriminating on there. Even the photos are either of simple natural sights or the office dog.]
[(Trying to get a good image of his beloved found family is half impossible).]
Please don't look through my messages. [He says, sounding painfully shy for a moment.] They've been rather embarrassing, lately...
[But once that is done he steps back, inhales softly and steels himself. Mission time. It's not often he's done things to explicit time limits but there have been plentiful times in his life and in his work where doing things quickly and quietly have been important. Xu Shu is naturally athletic, swift and strong, and while he won't actually directly acknowledge that it's still true. And he knows it, on some level.]
[So he's quieter when he speaks next, but firmer, pulling up the hood of his hoodie even as he speaks. Usually he does so because he's feeling insecure but sometimes, just sometimes, it's because he's about to do something with considerable seriousness.]
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[(Trying to get a good image of his beloved found family is half impossible).]
Please don't look through my messages. [He says, sounding painfully shy for a moment.] They've been rather embarrassing, lately...
[But once that is done he steps back, inhales softly and steels himself. Mission time. It's not often he's done things to explicit time limits but there have been plentiful times in his life and in his work where doing things quickly and quietly have been important. Xu Shu is naturally athletic, swift and strong, and while he won't actually directly acknowledge that it's still true. And he knows it, on some level.]
[So he's quieter when he speaks next, but firmer, pulling up the hood of his hoodie even as he speaks. Usually he does so because he's feeling insecure but sometimes, just sometimes, it's because he's about to do something with considerable seriousness.]
Point, and we'll start.