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💰 Rent: $600/month (Negotiable! 💸) - Including all Utilities (electricity ⚡, gas 🔥, Wi-Fi 📶)
📍 Location: 19 Somerset St, Apt 2, Worcester, MA 15224.
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• 🛏 Fully furnished: Queen size bed mattress, sofa, wide work table, lamps, dinning table, shoe rack, chairs, dresser, and 2 closets.
• 🌡 Comfort: Equipped with centralized heating, plus a bonus space heater for extra warmth
• 🍳 Fully Equipped Kitchen: Kitchen equipped with a refrigerator, stove (4 burners), microwave, dishwasher, oven, blender, and trash cans - not to mention plenty of storage space.
• 🔧 Maintenance: Free maintenance services by our management.
• 💧 Utilities: Water, sewage, and trash removal included.
• 🌿 Aesthetics: Wooden floors, peaceful balcony oasis.
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• 🧺 Laundry: Coin-operated laundry.

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• 🚍 Transport: Proximity to transport: Major bus stops
• 🏫 Education: 7-min walk to WPI campus, 20 min walk to Clark
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I want to be more productive so badly. Especially with cleaning and working on my hobbies as those are really the only things I have to be productive in as I am disabled and do not work. My house is in serious need of a deep cleaning and I can't ever get anything done even with stuff I enjoy. I keep telling myself that I will be more productive but it just feels so overwhelming to look at everything that needs to be done. I don't know where to start either. Plus a lot of the time it just feels like I literally can't do it. Like I'm paralyzed by anxiety. So I end up just sitting there and doing nothing. It's gotten to where the only things I really do anymore are washing clothes and doing the dishes. I want a clean house and I want to be able to do stuff I like such as cooking and making jewelry. There's a bunch of stuff I want to try out as well that I can't do until the house is clean. I want to try making YouTube videos because I used to and I really enjoyed it then. I also want to start learning how to sew. I already have a sewing machine and everything else I need to get started. I wish I could figure out how to get started. It just feels like there is so much to do and I don't know how or where to start because I will start in one area and then I will find something that goes somewhere else and then I feel like I have to start cleaning that area and then I find something that goes somewhere else and so on and so forth. My brain is just like well if you want to clean your room you have to clean the floor but to clean the floor you have to pick up your clothes but before you do that you have to put up your clean clothes but in order to do that you have to clean out from in front of your closet and it just keeps going from there. I just don't know how to actually start anything. I want to have a better life and I have all these dreams but I can never start doing what needs to be done in order to start them. I don't know what to do anymore. It's always been like this and it just keeps getting worse.

I think Tupac may have been bisexual. Hear me out, this isn't a troll post or a dig at him. I know many of his followers get emotional about topics such as these, almost like they're being personally attacked.
Pac was a theater kid who studied ballet at a liberal arts school. This doesn't make him gay at all, but a good number of theater kids are in fact homosexual or are experimental and very open minded at the least. Again, doesn't make Pac gay or bisexual
For one second though, circumsttial evidence almost points to the probability that Pac was bisexual at least. He was very articulate and nothing like the thug persona he presented after he began his rapping and acting career. Many of you know of his interview as a 17 year old. He was very effeminate in that clip. That was the real Tupac.
Many know this as well but Queen Latifah shared a story about doing a show at a gay club in 1990 San Francisco while Pac was still with Digital underground (who were labelmates with her). She invited him to the show and they all had a great time. The video is below:
https://youtu.be/Ta8xIg1gmmE?si=Uo-9zkTZR3RQKnNA
The Pac persona developed at Deathrow that saw him call out Dre for having a thing for Trans women would've never been seen in a gay club. He was playing a part to fit in with his environment at Death row. Suge Knight even called him out for being a homophobe for allegedly not wanting to work with Dre because of his sexuality. Suge Knight claimed Pac called Dre the F word. Pacs family contended that he wasn't a homophobe and used the example of Pac being 'great friends ' with the late openly gay Gianni Versace as proof of this
https://www.tmz.com/2012/05/16/tupac-gianni-versace-gay/
Pac's close friendship with Jada Pickett is another one that might make you wonder about his openness sexually. Pickett has generally always been openly bisexual, if anything you could say she's polyamorous or maybe even Pansexual just based on some of the things she's said about her sexual and dating activities after she got into Hollywood. Pac would've known this, and perhaps it's something they shared?
And finally, many won't buy this, but there's a guy named 'Eskiah' who claimed to have been in a gay relationship with Pac back at the arts school in Baltimore.
This a transcript from an interview about his claims back in 2014:
Just days before the anniversary of late rapper Tupac Shakur’s demise, new rumors surface concerning the star’s supposed homosexuality.
Yesterday a man wishing to be known only as “Eskiah” contacted National Report claiming to possess countless love letters that he received from Shakur over a period of six years. Eskiah tells us their relationship started when they were only teenagers.
“We met while studying ballet at the Baltimore School for the Arts and from there just hit it off” Eskiah said. The couple maintained an on-again-off-again homosexual relationship that spanned the rapper’s entire career.
Eskiah has allowed National Report to publish some snippets from one of these letters. In this particular note sent during Tupac’s 1993 incarceration on abuse charges Shakur writes erotically, referring to Eskiah as “Esk”.
The evidence, if legitimate, is absolutely condemning. We at National Report have taken it upon ourselves to compare the letter with known handwriting samples of Tupac Shakur.
When ask why he has finally decided to come forward after all these years, Eskiah stated:
“I’m doing this to call more attention to gay acceptance within the black community. There’s a big issue with homosexuality among African Americans. It’s sad. Black culture seems to look down on gay people. Take Antwon Dotson for instance. He was ridiculed by his family and friends until he broke down and conformed to the heterosexual lifestyle that was expect of him. Maybe his supposed “friends” would have thought differently if they knew Tupac was a gay male and had many similar mannerisms as Dotson behind closed doors.”
Eskiah continued:
“Think about it, people. He majored in drama. He was a poet. One of his favorite artists was Sarah Mclaughlin. He attended gay pride parades with close friend Queen Latifa. Why are you all so blinded by your intolerance?
If Tupac was still alive he would have come out of the closet by now. He told me many times that he wanted to. I think ultimately, Pac’s death was a major blow to gay acceptance. Homosexuality in the black community would have been completely different if not for Tupac’s death. It really wouldn’t surprise me if Knight had him killed to prevent him from going public about his homosexuality.
I realize many of my brothers and sisters will hate me for going public with this info. I in turn ask you why? Would you love Tu Pac any less because of his sexual preference? Would it affect the impact he’s made on people’s lives? Destroy what he stood for? No, of course it wouldn’t. Yet, I expect many people to be outraged. All I’ve gotta say is: Don’t shoot the messenger.”
As further proof of the rappers sexual lean, Eskiha cites a 1988 interview with the then 18 year old Shakur.
“That’s the flamboyant thug I knew. Soft spoken. Respectful. His entire “hard thug” persona was created by Suge Knight specifically for Death Row Records. I didn’t care for it. He didn’t either but it paid the bills. Made his Mama proud. Allowed him a life style he had never been able to experience before. He was an actor at heart, you know. He just played the part he was given…”
Eskiah is currently working on a book detailing his life with Shakur in which he will publish all of the letters he received from Tupac as well as candid, never before seen photographs of the rapper.
I think its possible that under different circumstances Tupac could've been a magnificent gay icon

I've known about a webbing clothes moth infestation in my 1-bedroom, South Philly apartment for about a month (who knows how long it's actually been going on). Worryingly, I saw silk cocoons even on unnatural fiber items, like my mousepad under my keyboard.
First thing I did was get pheromone traps. I removed my infested wool items, washed and dried everything on hot, and dry cleaned my dress clothes (which currently are living at my office until I get sealed garment bags. I'm now re-washing and moving everything into vacuum bags. Last week, I put down Gentrol point sources.
Despite all the mitigations, there are somehow more moths now than when I first noticed them.
So today I had an exterminator from a respected local pest control company come by today for an assessment. He said that due to my large video game and collectible collection, there is literally nothing effective that they can do to help.
He said that residual spraying would only be effective if they're localized, but they're not, they're out of the closet and everywhere (under the bed, blankets). He said that I could bomb the place, but that would kill adults and not eggs, and I'd have to bag up my entire collection, and I'd likely not have enough space to do that.
Additionally, and I had never heard this so would love confirmation/disconformation, he said that they could be laying eggs and feeding on cardboard parts of my collection. That turned the joy I get from my collecting to absolute despair. Is that true? Is my boxed game collection a vector?
At this point it feels like even moving would be futile, as I'd just bring them with me.

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What's up everybody? Never thought the day would come, but alas, here we are. I was an avid player years ago- at my local field every weekend, playing Lion Claws and AMS ops, crawling forums chairsofting, I even worked at my local field as a repair tech and ref for 3 summers. Now the local field has shut down, life has happened and most of my friends have sold their gear, and I've had a closet full of stuff for the last 5 years while I keep telling myself "You'll go play again one day"
Man do I miss weekends at the local CQB field. At this point I'm almost 30, and making music and playing shows with my band has become my primary hobby, thus I have decided to sell the last of my collection in hopes of funding a new guitar purchase
Tippmann M4 with Line and Tank ($325) I got one of these when they were new to the market and instantly fell in love. HPA with recoil, efficient enough to not refill through the day, and bonus points for being loud and scary. Gun has an Orga WBB and TDC mod. This is fitted with a RS Magpul ASAP sling plate, as well as a Knights Armament keymod grip. Will also include the Noveske Flash hider, Aimpoint Comp M2 clone, as well as the pictured Maddog tank and line. It has sat in a closet unused for nearly 10 years at this point and somehow still cycles just fine after putting air to it for testing while making the listing. Asking $325 shipped.
Mags ($60)- x4 KWA K120's, x3 Evike BAMF 180 Mids, 1 ol' reliable highcap for pickup games, Odin Speedloader, and 5 magpuls. Asking $60 shipped
Airsoft Innovations Tornado grenades & thunder B ($220)- One timer with the spoon kit and 3 impact. These are the original reusable grenades for airsoft and are the gold standards for the product in my opinion. Still working even though they are 10 years+ old at this point. Will need seals soaked in silicon, a little leaky at the valve but still functional- Asking $220 shipped for all 5
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I am helping my boyfriend advertise this unit. This Lincoln Park studio apartment at 1939 N Lincoln Ave, is available from 7/1/2024 to 8/31/2024 with option to extend the lease. It boasts a spacious walk-in closet for ample storage. Conveniently located, it's a 15-minute walk to Lincoln Park Fitness Center, an 8-minute walk to Equinox, 10 minutes to Target, and 6 minutes to Carnivale Finer Foods and Liquor. Nearby amenities include a shoe repair shop, dry cleaner, and several restaurants. It's a 2-minute walk to the 37 bus stop and a 3-minute walk to the 73 bus stop. The maintenance team promptly addresses any concerns within the unit. Laundry facilities are available on the first floor, and both an elevator and stairs provide access to the unit. Natural gas and water are included; electricity is not. Happy to DM you a video of the unit and the property managers info for you to contact them to confirm the listing.

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She does narration about life lesson stuff over her outfit videos which are also nice. ( YT shorts)
I love to see YT creators that are far over 21 and not hyper fixated on being the typical expectations of what a woman is suppose to be + OH fashion looks.
It made me start picking through my own closet and reframing outfits. I am so glad she rolled into my YT suggestions randomly. I have been so bored with clothing/style typically marketed at adult women out of typical college age. If you know of any other channels like this please comment below. I joined this place for the inspo! lol
Sick of wearing the same boring "adult" and "professional" clothing.
Its killing my soul! lol

Hiya folks I just have a quick question for the stichline games believers, and please keep in mind that this is just a question, I am not trying to make and conflict or anything like that, (we need a few months of peace) To state the fact: I myself do not believe Stichline nor talesgames for my own personal reasons, still that does not mean I don’t enjoy theories about those timeline, hyper-doid is a heavy believer of the book’s connection to the games, (as well as the toys are haunted but that something else’s) fun fact he is making Videos about all of the given information and theories about fnaf games one by one, hopefully he gives an unbiased explanation of the lore, I personally dislike when people say THIS IS UNDENIABLE when talking about if the books are canon or not, both sides even game theory sometimes
Wow off topic much… anyway in the story, the man in room 1280, the story takes place in some where in the 80’s or 90’s and at the end of the story, the burnt man asked to be taken to a fazbear owned place, where he exploded spreading what we know now is his agony and bits of Andrew soul into the items we see throughout the frights books, Andrew goes into either the fetch robot or just the battery, and is shipped to a different location and that story took place when I-phones or smartphone were out there for a kid to have one, around late 2010s. Now stichlines say that the burnt man in the first story is the Games antagonist William afton, with his body recovered after the fnaf 6 fire, the main issue I see with this is that the fire took place in what we can say is 2023 or later, but the book had the burnt body before any official fire in the games timeline, if it was the fnaf 6 then why was the items as it was before 2023 when in the games when Faz inc was dissolved and only brought back years later
the question I have is what do book theorists have to say about this time displacement
Now I might be wrong about this but I always thought that the fnaf novels were in canon with the frights book as the 4th closet take place in the near the 90’s and William at that point was out of spring Bonnie, and as we know from brunt-trap that suit is stuck on him without major changes, as his body is a glam endo a long with other reason Thanks for your responses

Recently I upgraded to a 4080 super and it was my first high end nvidia card. Starting out I went from a 2060 to a AMD 6900xt(at the time amd was all that was available) and then a 4080 super. If you look on my recent posts you can see that when only browsing the web like reddit or youtube shorts the screen would have this weird glitchy behavior. I tried to ddu the drivers and install different drivers and nothing seemed to help. when posting that to nvidia page someone posted a article clip(not sure of the source) implying it was a known issue. I was just aggravated ya know. You spend all the money for a product that is highly praised, other than their ethical practices of course, just to be disappointed. I don't know why amd gets all the hate that they do but I haven't had any issues from that card at all. The reason for the upgrade was to maybe get a better stream quality as i was thinking of streaming but all in all the bit rate limit on twitch for non partners makes it still look like garbage. I was hoping that the better efficiency with Nvenc encoder would help to produce a decent 1080 60 session but fast moving higher graphic games just dont look good. (blocky when moving camera around). So yeah, just wanted to rant about how in my personal experience I actually have my 4080 super in the closet back in the box and my 6900xt in my system. Just switch back today and not one instance of that weird glitchy behavior. Also if there are any " well you probably didn't have the right setting for obs or streamlabs and thats why your stream looked like garbage nube" lol I looked up many videos online and I tried everything. update to post.... didnt realize my post on nvidia was deleted.

Despite this all happening within a few months, this is a very long story. I apologize in advance but there are a lot of details. This all took place about a year ago. I (20F) and my longtime best friend (20F) (let’s call her Jenny) decided to move in together after she came home from her freshman year of college. We had planned this during our senior year of high school as we had been best friends since elementary school. The summer between high school graduation and college my parents agreed to let her move in with me as they knew her very well, loved her and treated her as their daughter. We did this because she did not feel welcome in own home and felt her parents were too overbearing and mean to her.
Even searching for apartments in our area with her was a nightmare and I did most of the work. While the area we live is by no means expensive it is not cheap either especially as kids with not very well paying jobs. I was working full time while she worked a few hours a week for minimum wage (about $8/hour) which was a conscience choice on her part. She insisted that she did not want to pay more than $4-500 per month for rent. But she wanted things like a gym, pool, close to her work, etc. I told her that was unrealistic as even the places that would be close to that amount are the sketchiest places in town and would not offer those kinds of amenities. I convinced Jenny to agree to a nice apartment complex that did come with certain amenities but would cost about $650/ month for each of us. I had to pick up working hours with my dad on the side in order for the complex to approve us because she did not make virtually any money at the time.
We were set to move in when she came home in May. In April I received a call from the complex saying they had an apartment available right away if we were interested. I told her about the call and explained I was fine to wait for the top floor apartment (which was the one we both wanted) but she told me to accept the offer as she was coming home for 2 weekends in April to spend time with her boyfriend and pack, and told me she wanted to start moving things in before she officially moved back. Reluctantly, I agreed. And here begins the majority of the issues. Jenny in particular was very cheap. No I don’t mean frugal I mean cheap. She once, during high school, drove our friend group to her place of work to get Icecream we each ordered and she got hers for free because her friend was working at the time. She put it all on her card despite me saying I could pay in cash. She then calculated the price of what her icecream would’ve been into what everyone owed her. Meaning we paid for our own and also paid for hers despite getting hers for free?? She did things like this all the time. She called it the “friend tax” or said we owed her for putting it all on her card. That being said she told me that she should only have to pay for 6 days of April’s rent as she would only be staying there for 6 days. This despite it being HER idea to move in sooner. I am a recovering people pleaser so I agreed. She also sent me money for rent late so I had to pay an extra fee. She would not pay it.
The majority of issues revolved around 5 things: me “not being considerate of her”, my boyfriend Marcus (19M), her boyfriend Carl (19m), my cat, and her entitlement/health issues(a good portion of which I do not believe were as severe as she said, purely because of how she acted). Here is a list of some of the things we argued about:
She took advantage of me making more money than her ie, every time we went to the same place we drove my car so we would “use my gas and not hers” (including to her boyfriend’s house, because we were all friends and hung out).
Marcus and I accidentally fell asleep in a blanket fort we had built in the living room. She told me I was “not aloud to have sleepovers”.
She argued Marcus should pay for part of her rent if he would be spending the night over(he was already helping me pay for groceries which she was using as well).
Jenny complained about my cat going in her room but refused to close the door and open a window because it was too “stuffy”.
While agreeing before hand that I would have the bigger room and she would have the covered parking, she insisted that I pay more of the rent because I got the bigger room because her Carl’s brother “said so”. Even though she also got both of the storage closets in the main space to use for her things.
She claimed to have misophonia which if you don’t know is a condition in which you have physical reactions to certain sounds,ie, chewing, dripping water, taping pencils, etc. Except she claimed it went so far as to have smells also affect her and that her main reaction is anger. That being said she texted me angry one morning because I had made tuna fish sandwiches(one of her favorite foods she eats all the time) at about 2am after I got off work and she could still smell it in the morning at about 5am when she got up for work. She then told me I was “not aloud to make food when I came home from work”.
She told me I had to get my cat spayed because she was too loud when she was in heat. Her and her boyfriend Carl then harassed me for weeks about getting my cat spayed even though she never bled.
She kicked my cat’s butt right in front of me. Not hard but it was deliberate and she even said out loud she meant to do it “to teach her a lesson”.
I had explicitly told Jenny and Carl “Do not. Under any circumstances. Let my cat outside on the balcony.” She then sent me a picture and video on Snapchat while I was at work of her and Carl with my cat outside on the balcony. When confronted she said it was ok because her boyfriend’s family has outdoor cats and he said it was ok.
She got mad when my cat got zoomies because it triggered her.
She got mad when I told her repeatedly if she leaves things out on purpose knowing my cat will get into them. I will not pay replace the items when they do not belong in main areas, ie the earplugs she wore to sleep.
She was upset that Marcus and I were not as religious as her and Carl. (We grew up religious) She told me I was confused because I didn’t agree with her on certain things, And was always comparing our boyfriends
Marcus had bought a 12 pack of coke to leave at our apartment which I told her not to drink. She and her friends then took multiple and didn’t even drink them?? They all wasted about half of each can. She would not pay to replace them.
She was upset that I spent time with my boyfriend when she was home Instead of her. I tried planning times for us to hang out but she was usually hanging out with her boyfriend or other friends whenever I was not working.
Always left the AC/lights on when she was not in the room or not even home.
Told me I loved my cat more than her because I had told her I was responsible for my cat’s life as a pet owner and I was not responsible for her life as a friend.
Her and her boyfriend argued over the stupidest things. I had to buy our dish rack because they spent 10 minutes in Walmart arguing over a $4 difference. We both wanted the bigger one but her boyfriend said she didn’t need to spend $4 extra dollars on a bigger one. He did not live there. At any point in time. He literally made her cry in the isle.
She wanted my boyfriend to pay part of her rent any time he stayed over so I told her I would charge her boyfriend anytime he spent the day there (which happened often) because what’s the difference between day and night? It’s not a hotel.
Her and Carl insisted that I pay for a new couch because they didn’t like the one I brought with me.
Carl rearranged things in our apartment to how “he liked them” (kitchen cabinets, the fridge, the couch, etc)
Her boyfriend often spoke of how he had a crush on me first but then year’s later decided he liked her.
Carl also spoke openly about how he thinks if she ever died he would pursue dating me/ if we were the last 2 people on earth he would want to repopulate the earth with me.
He tried very hard to convince her not to go to college (which was 3 hours away) and implied that he couldn’t live without her. I had to be the one to convince her to go to school which is something she worked very hard for to get good grades.
He was “allergic to spicy”?? and. A bunch of other “health issues” he had as well. He was also incredibly cheap. He made her pay him back for half of a soda they split. He also made her cry about that, that day.
Then were all the issues with her proposal. I will list them quickly. He boyfriend tried to convince her she could not get a ring more than $50 because she didn’t need it and that she needed to pay for half of it. (I told her that was not ok) She said she wanted me and her sister there at the engagement and no one else. He decided to do it on a family vacation in front of his parents/siblings where me and her sister1 could not attend. He had a supposedly “recovered” c*orn addiction. He told her he didn’t want her family at the wedding but that if they eloped his family would be there. She always complained about her parents’ marriage because they got married young and yet here she was doing the same thing. And many more.
Now all this being said, I am not a perfect roommate either. I did few things that were wrong of me and I apologized for them and tried to compromise. For example I left my car in her covered parking space overnight because I didn’t know she would get home before me. I also did not tell her a couple of times my boyfriend stayed the night and I understand not knowing a man you don’t know very well is sleeping in your apartment would be frustrating and upsetting. For that we agreed that I would text her to let her know when he was staying the night. I said. Some mean things when I was frustrated as well not calling her names but calling her selfish/entitled, etc, and was not as understanding as I could’ve been.
At a certain point I told her I did not want to live with her any more and that I wanted to move out. This was mid June. I told her I would offer my half the lease to her boyfriend first and that if he didn’t want it she could either take over the rest of rent, move out too or I would sell my lease to a random stranger. She decided that she wanted to move out and I would stay. Because she was breaking her lease she had to pay a $300 move out fee. Which Jenny and Carl both tried to get me to pay in exchange they would leave a bunch of random shit they didn’t want and had gotten for free, ie a broken “desk”, tv stand and a table. I told her I would rather buy all my own things than pay for her to move out. She and I both had to sign a paper saying we both agreed to terms of breaking a lease which included that if she moved out she revoked any right to claim any portion of the deposit and was not responsible for any damages after she left. After she left I examined her room and bathroom she left and insane number of pinholes and sticky stuff all over the mirror in the bathroom from stickers she had put up. Not much but I took pictures as proof anyway. Surprise, they ended up leaving the garbage desk anyway. She was supposed to move out on June 30th. But she told me she was staying till July 1st so that her family could hold a pool/birthday party for her little sister2 and then would help her move out. I adore her little sister2 so I agreed.
She had told me that she was going to tell Carl’s parents to let her move in with them. Obviously they did not agree and she had to move in with her parents. Far away from her work and even further from her boyfriend. A few weeks later I was at the county fair where I saw her parents and her little sister2. They called me over and were very excited to see me. They asked for my side of the story. I told them everything. Everything about her boyfriend, the engagement, how she had been treating me. They told me their perspective as well. They had no idea about anything. Especially the engagement, they found out when she came home from the vacation. He had not even spoken to them about it and neither had she. They also only found out she needed a place to live just days before she moved out. Meaning she knew for 3 weeks she was moving out but was hoping to force Carl’s parents to let her move in. They both apologized for their daughter and said they were embarrassed of how Jenny had treated me. I also spoke to her sister1 after the fact, who told me that Jenny refused to tell her anything. But told her I was being a bitch. I was also like a daughter to her parents, and another sister to her siblings so I’m not surprised they didn’t believe her.
We did not speak after she moved out. The time passed for our lease to end and she sent me a text asking for her half of the deposit back. I told her I would not be sending her any money and to never contact me again. I have the document she signed showing that she had no legal right to the deposit. I figure it will cover a portion the rent she should have paid in April. Although I am over it now, it did hurt a lot that she threw away a 12 year friendship over stupid shit like that. But overall I am glad she showed me who she was before I included her into things like my wedding and my future children’s lives. So am I the asshole for not giving back her portion of the deposit? Or really for any other part of this story?

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Story time !
I was expecting an email today that did not come into my inbox, so I checked the spam folder. Instead, I found an odd email that, at first glance appears to come from my own email address. The message claims that I have been compromised by a hacker and that he collected sensitive information on me and my close ones, demanding a bitcoin payment within 48 hours or he will release the compromising information. I only noticed this email 5 days after the reception date, so the 48 hours have long past. I am a pretty conscious person when navigating the web. I don't click on random links and deactivate JS when visiting sketchy websites.
Here is the email body: ""
I was planning to say hello, [redacted abbreviation of my name], but now I think greetings are unnecessary.
Firstly, I already know you and all your loved ones very well.
Secondly, the occasion for which I'm writing to you is not the happiest one for a friendly greeting.
You've heard that the Internet is a dangerous place, infested with malicious links and hackers like me?
Of course, you've heard, but what's the point in it if you are so dismissive of your internet security and don't care what websites you visit?
Times have changed. You read about AI, judging by your browser history, and still didn't understand anything?
Technologies have stepped far forward, and now hackers like me use artificial intelligence.
Thanks to it, I can get not only access to your webcam and record your fun with highly controversial video
(I recorded it also, but now that's not the point), but also to all your devices and not only yours.
And I saved a special sauce for this dish. I went further and sent malicious links to all your contacts from your account.
Yes, someone was smarter and realized that this was a trap and you were hacked, but believe me,
about 70% of your contact list (and these are your friends, colleagues, and family) bought into my scam.
They have as many skeletons in their closet as you do. Some turn out to be hidden homosexuals...
I have accumulated and analyzed a huge amount of compromising data on you and those with whom you communicate.
Very soon I'll start a crossfire - everyone will receive the full history of correspondence
(and there are enough of "sensitive moments") and recordings from the other contact's webcam.
I can go further and put all these files, as well as the recorded fun of you and your hacked contacts with "hardcore videos" into the public domain.
You can imagine, it will be a real sensation!
And everyone will understand where it came from - from you.
For all your contacts and, you will be enemy number one. Even your relatives will take a long time to forgive you and forget such a family shame...
It will be the real end of the world. The only difference is that there will be not four horsemen of the apocalypse, but only one - (=
But there is no such thing as a completely black stripe without any white dots.
Luckily for you, in my case the "Three M Rule" comes into play - Money, Money and Money again.
I'm not interested in your worthless life, I'm interested in people from whom I can profit.
And today you are one of them.
That's why: Transfer $1190 in Bitcoin to: [redacted bitcoin address] ...within 48 hours!
You don't know how to use cryptocurrencies? Use Google, everything is simple.
Once payment is received, I will delete all information associated with you and you will never hear from me again.
Remember one thing: my crypto address is anonymous, and I generated this letter in your mailbox and sent it to you.
You can call the cops, do whatever you want - they won't find me, my demands won't change, but you'll just waste precious time.
The clock is ticking. Tick tock, a minute out of 48 hours has passed right now. An hour will soon pass, and in two days your old life will pass forever.
Either goodbye forever (if I get my payment), or hello to a brave new world in which there will be no place for you.
Hasta La Vista, Baby!
P.S. Almost forgot. Finally learn what incognito tabs, two-factor authentication, and the TOR browser are, for God's sake!
""
The email is clearly very generic with zero proof of compromise. I have ran a full anti-virus scan with Avast that found nothing. I have also checked the login activity of the past month on my outlook account and found no successful logins. I'm sure we all have secrets we don't want to be made public, but I use my computer mainly for work and school, so my search history is not very juicy. Before you ask, I'm not dumb enough to pay the ransom, but I do want to investigate this closely. The email mentioned that he has recordings of me trough my webcam, yet my laptop does not have a built in webcam. I use an external USB camera for remote meetings that I unplug after the call has ended. So my mind shifted the my phone as I do use my phone more than my computer as my email is logged in to my outlook and has been running sluggish these past few weeks. I ran an Avast scan of my phone that found nothing. The last line of his email mentioned that I should learn to use incognito and install 2FA, which I think gave it away as being a scam more than a hack, mainly because I do use incognito and have 2FA enabled on most important accounts.
Normally I would have simply deleted this kind of email, but the fact that the sender appears to be coming from my own email address got me worried. There is 3 possible option I could see in this case,
1) the email address uses characters that are very similar to regular characters used in my email. I would try replying to the email and see if it comes back to my own inbox, but that would not confirm this theory due to my second point.
2) the email address may have been spoofed using software that makes it look like my own. In which case replying to the email will most likely come back into my inbox
3) I have been compromised with a remote execution payload and the email has been sent from my own device, which would explain why there is no logins logged outside my own IP. But whenever I send an email to myself, the email arrives into my inbox and not my spam folder.
Let me know what you think. Is there a way to view the sender's IP or anything that would shed light on this email. ?
Thanks.

P.S. This is Tagged as spoilers for some pieces of infromation that may be spoilers for those who have not seen or done her interrogation or the Floral Unfurl and RainBurst Events. This is also the first post of mine to break the Character limit so I will be breaking it into two parts.
Link to Part 2: https://www.reddit.com/PathToNowhere/comments/1clu7gw/path_to_nowhere_sfw_headcanons_for_shalom_part_2/
Part 3: https://www.reddit.com/PathToNowhere/comments/1clua8k/path_to_nowhere_sfw_headcanons_for_shalom_part_3/
1. She has many times attempted to usurp Nightingale as the chief’s adjutant in an effort to get closer to the Chief, with her efforts ranging from subtle attempts to discredit Nightingale, to outright attempting to have her transferred to a different Agency, though these efforts have all been in vain.
She has since switched her efforts from removing the Adjutant from play, to making her into an ideal subordinate to aid the Chief and to use as a proxy for her own plans to benefit the Chief, herself, and the rest of the MBCC through a variety of means, some of which have left Nightingale adamant in putting a bullet in the head of whoever is responsible for them.
2. She does not like overly spicy food, something with a little kick is fine, but anything above that is too much for her, a weakness that Coquelic somehow figured out and used against her by lacing one of her meals with a notoriously hot pepper.
Shalom’s yelp of pain as the spice overwhelmed her, and the way her eyes had begun to water as she downed her entire drink before she asked Rahu to get her another one, is an image that has been immortalized in the halls of The Garden via several covertly taken photos and videos.
That the Garden found its flower garden in the Greenhouse dying barely a week later, in addition to the Chief being unable to get her hands on any additional flower seeds to replace the ones they had lost for several months afterwards was certainly just a coincidence…right?
3. She still has a soft spot for Christina despite past…incidents. And while she desires for Christina to make her own path, she still considers her to be her detective, and as such maintains a careful eye on her.
From keeping track of which cases she is working, the threat they pose to her detective, the people she socializes with, her newest interests, her family’s state of affairs, to the way she decorates her room, and so on, she feels at ease knowing that her detective is safe and sound.
She has made it clear to her detective that she will always be present to offer her help should she need it, granted her help tends to come with the requirement of Chris having to spend time with Shalom while she addresses her as ‘Big Sister Shalom’ during said time and allowing the Hush to call her ‘Little Sister’ as well.
As such she is never able to fight the smile that comes to her face when Christina needs her help, especially when she is able to use the chance to pamper her detective and see how far she has grown while on her own.
4. This suggestion came from EinarKaslana on Ao3, the credit for it goes to them.
That said, it is a shared headcanon between us that she is fond of photography, and maintains many photo albums throughout her places of residence, with specific people, such as the Chief, Christina, and Rahu, having entire albums devoted to pictures taken of them by the Hush.
That some of them were taken by cameras they were unaware of is neither here nor there to Shalom, and so long as they remain unaware of them, it will be nothing to them either…especially so long as they do not discover the albums that contain more candid pictures of them in various states of undress or in certain…compromising positions.
It is safe to say that those albums are among her most well hidden and well defended of treasures, with even Schorl being unaware of their location.
5. She has a soft spot for cats and dogs, often leaving out food for them or taking the time to pet and pamper them when she encounters them, as such she was one of the staunchest backers for the MBCC gaining an on site pound/shelter.
That said, she is also an avid fan of cat cafes having dragged Christina and Rahu to enough that they can reliably name the majority of the cat cafes in Dis off the top of their head, with but a few exceptions for those that have yet to have the Hush grace them.
She also tends to leave very sizable tips at said cafes, enough that the staff go out of their way to meet her expectations, and that they do not say a word about her gathering enough cats to cover herself and whoever is with her at the time in them.
6. Her room is surprisingly rather homey, with a number of bookshelves lining the walls, only broken up by small tables or wall fixtures with lamps and candles resting on them, an assortment of dark colored furniture, a large amount of flowers, both in pots on tables and hanging from the ceiling, and a rather sizable collection of horror related media.
She also has a large canopied bed that she has covered in enough pillows that many periodically fall off when anything jostles the bed, and a rather sizable amount of scented candles and incense scattered throughout her room.
Her main outfit of choice, along with several copies of her favorite coat, is kept in a dresser near her bathroom, while a much larger walk-in closet is dedicated to other uniforms and outfits that she has amassed over the years, though they are a subject for later on.
There is also a room that is hidden within her cell, a result of her machinations and of several deals made to allow her skills to be used to benefit the MBCC, said room being filed with a wall of monitors and terminals, a large number of filing cabinets rigged with incendiary devices that she can activate by tapping a button on her terminal, and a sizable amount of targets for her to focus her skills on.
She can never stop herself from chuckling everytime she enters the room, picturing the look on her former handlers faces were they to become aware that the Hush of Paradeisos, has become the Hush of Minos, granted said role is kept secret from the Chief, but it is the thought that counts…at least to her.
7. While there are many Sinners and staff within the bureau that adore Shalom, there are equally as many that hold in her both dread and contempt, be it because they know just Who she is, or because they feel that something is not quite right with her, some sixth sense warning them to avert themselves from aligning so closely with her.
Among those who hold her in disdain are Langley, who has seen enough of the mountain of corpses the Hush has built as an agent of Paradeisos to fully trust her, even with her devotion seemingly to have switched to her rookie.
As a result, the Spider has a special bullet with Shalom’s name written on it for the moment she feels the Hush has become more trouble than she is worth keeping around.
Another one that holds the Hush in contempt is Chameleon, the hypnotist being able to see through the mask that Shalom wears and finding the thing she glimpses beneath it to be of no small amount of concern, hence her own caution in regards to her.
Her trepidation regarding Shalom was only further cemented by the fact that the one time Chameleon attempted to use her power on Shalom resulted in her awakening in her cell with a migraine, a bloodied nose, and a letter reading- “Please, don’t try that again. I would hate to have to explain your loss to the Chief. Sincerely-Shalom”
Of course there is also the Garden and their own wariness of the woman to consider as well, as, while they do admit her actions allowed for them to escape the clutches of the Underground, her methods…have done their perception of her no favors.
Though they can agree with her desire to support the Chief and to safeguard their new home, it does nothing to keep them from having their eyes on her, and a blade marked with her name on it should she overstep her bounds.
While there are many more who feel wariness of the former Hush of Paradeisos, perhaps rivaled but by that of the former leader of Rustifre is that of her own former protegee and pseudo sister, Chirstina.
Having seen first hand just how ruthless her mentor can be, along with having gotten a glimpse as to the true nature of her work for Paradeisos, she has since found that while she yet has a fondness for Shalom, she can never feel as at ease in her presence as she once did due to what she has done, something which is bittersweet to Shalom.
8. She is one of a very select few to have actually beaten Eirene at both normal chess, and a specialized version of it designed by the Head Of Quinn, with her version of chess being something which involves multiple chess boards linked to a rotating table, where the players are playing multiple games simultaneously with but a few moments to make each decision and move.
Said game lasted nearly 12 hours, and ended with Shalom claiming a resounding victory with but minimal losses upon the other boards, a feat which has since earned her no small amount of fame within the bureau, even from her detractors, and a standing offer to play chess with Eirene whenever she wishes to.
9. While she is physically frail, especially for an S-Rank Sinner, she is still heads and shoulders above an average person in terms of speed, strength, and endurance, being as able of breaking bones with a punch as she is ruining someone's life with a few well placed whispers.
That said, she is surprisingly somewhat unaware of the extent of this strength, especially given that she is severely lacking in training for CQC and the usage of firearms and other weaponry, given her preference for remaining on the backlines and using the overwhelming might of Schorl to contend with any foe that gets in her way, and has thus not really had any reason to use it.
Yet even without training, she is still a capable threat should someone get in close, something which has lead to several sinners and staff seeing the surreal scene of her casually flinging a corruptor, that had somehow bypassed Schorl’s scanners, three times her size against a wall before it was vaporized by the aforementioned Paradeisian weapon.
10. She has gained a habit of messing with Schorl by putting stickers and such on it, something which the machine does not seem to enjoy given how it will try and find any way it can to remove the stickers or markings from itself the moment they are applied.
Shalom even once went so far as to write on the Paradeisian device with a pink marker, using it as a means of reminding herself of an appointment she had with Dr. Iron and Nurse Anne regarding her health, with the machine actually allowing the message to be written and to remain…at least until after her appointment, at which point it bore a hole through a water pipe and used it to wash itself off.
Similarly, she once brought up the idea of coloring the Schorl, with the machine and its operators adamantly rejecting the very concept of the idea, going so far as to destroy the can of paint and paint brush that she had purchased to do so before they scurried off.
11. She cannot drive. This is one of the few points of agreement the Chief and Paradeisos have ever been able to reach as Shalom’s driving can lead to no small amount of damage to the vehicle she is behind the wheel of, along with the sanity and health of her passengers.
The last time she attempted to drive she managed to make it a quarter of the way to her destination before Rahu and Christina, both of whom were holding on to one another for dear life, managed to convince her to switch with Rahu while Christina and Schorl spoke with the sherrifs regarding the collateral damage.
They were less than 3 minutes into what should have been a 9 minute long drive at the time.
12. She is fond of dropping by the Chief’s office and helping them with their work whenever the opportunity presents itself, something which has greatly endeared her to the Chief, and, albeit begrudgingly, Nightingale.
That she tends to leave each of these sessions wondering just how it is that the Bureau has not imploded in on itself or declared secession from Dis in some fit of mad lunacy, is something that tends to add some enjoyment to her day by trying to make sense of the insanity of the MBCC.
She has even gone so far as to compile many of the more interesting stories and reports into a personal collection to browse for her own entertainment whenever she feels the need for some levity.
To this day, one of her favorites remains the time that Emp managed to weave so elaborate a lie that it resulted in the FAC spending nearly 4 days investigating a ‘Duck Sinner’ that was responsible for the destruction of a power plant, with the Archer even managing to, albeit unknowingly, have Paradaisos waste several days investigating the same claim when it was relayed to them.
The true culprit of the Power Plant overloading was of course, EMP herself, though Shalom vowed to take that secret to her grave in exchange for the amount of humor her lie gave her.
13. Rahu once attempted to teach her how to use a conventional weapon for self defense, in the event that Schorl was destroyed or disabled and she was not present, only for the attempt to end with Christina having to get her hat repaired courtesy of the bullet ricocheting off of the target, off of the ground between Rahu’s feet, the ceiling above them, the railing of the shooting range, and then into the top of Christina’s hat.
That Langley had the audacity to not only laugh when she heard the report, but to then order Shalom not be allowed to touch any firearms in the Bureau has since been something of a sore spot for the Hush, especially since both Christina and Rahu aid the Spider in enforcing such a rule.
14. While her fondness for the horror genre of film has long been a well established trend in the bureau, with her appreciation for it in literature and art being similarly well known, her fondness for horror games is a relatively new obsession of hers.
Most of this fondness for the horror genre of gaming can be laid at the feet of Etti, who Shalom overheard running a horror themed tabletop session, EMP, who introduced her to horror anime as repayment for lending her a movie, and Nino, who she watched stream a horror game that caught her fascination.
Since then, she has devoured many horror games in terms of both playing them and watching them, with some of the games being of such disturbing levels that even Schorl was driven to escape the room to avoid the more disturbing scenes and gameplay.
That her new fascination has started a trend among the ones in charge of monitoring her via Schorl using the media she enjoys as a form of Test Of Courage, is something she is aware of enough to greatly enjoy.
With her fondness later extending to Tabletop games and the potential for horror and suspenseful storytelling within them as she learned of many of the horror campaigns that had been run by other DMs.
This being something that led to her approaching Etti to request her guidance on the matter, with Etti agreeing to help her DM a horror themed session, the young dragon all too happy to help a fledgling DM in the art of destro-*Ahem* creating an enjoyable session for everyone with minimal tears and screams involved.
That said session she ran resulted in Horo hiding under Zoya’s bed, Christina hiding with Thistle in a closet, Hella and Ninety-Nine refusing to leave their room without ear plugs on as they cursed her to hell and back, was something that lead to Etti declaring Shalom to be her new apprentice in the art of DMing.
The sheer panic that announcement caused nearly brought the Bureau to its knees.
15. Upon learning of Cabernet’s ability to materialize and consume souls, Shalom sought her out with a rather curious request, as she wished for the Franc Heiress to materialize a piece of Shalom’s own soul so that she could taste it out of her own curiosity.
After a rather lengthy debate with the Chief, and several tablets of aspirin, it was decided to allow the experiment of sorts to take place, with Cabernet materializing 2 pieces of Shalom’s soul as a pair of grapes, one being given to the Hush and the other being kept by the Glutton of Souls herself.
Cabernet would later remark that the taste was bizarre, as at first there appeared to be no flavor at all to her grape, only for her to be suddenly hit with an overwhelming bombardment of taste to such an extent she was nearly ill, the heiress later remarking to the Chief that beyond all of the myriad flavors there was something else…a feeling that was unnamable to her, yet left her feeling uneasy for many days afterwards.
Shalom would claim that she enjoyed the taste of the grape as well, though the true joy of the experience seemed to be an idea that had come to her as she would later approach the Glutton with an offer that she would request be kept between the two of them.
What was that offer?
Perhaps it is better off unknown if the way the Franc Heiress refused to leave her room for several days afterwards was anything to go by, and it is likely better still to not question why it is she seems to make a weekly tribute of a grape to the Hush, one that could not possibly have been made with Shalom’s own soul.
Indeed, it is better not to question what was said between the two.
16. She is still in regular contact with, and financially supporting, her former maid from her time at Erica Villa, Rosa.
The young woman having managed to somehow earn the fondness of the former Hush to such an extent that she has been working quite tirelessly to convince the Chief to allow for her to be employed at the Bureau, her main argument being that she could be of great help as part of any of the departments that need her…along with being another at least semi-sane and responsible person to help keep the MBCC in…relatively stable condition.
With each day she makes the argument to the Chief she wears her down more and more until she will be able to have her maid back at her side, and once more enjoy teaming up with her to make Rahu, and soon the Chief, as flustered as possible with their shared teasing.
17. She is not allowed any form of caffeine, a rule Paradeisos ‘forgot’ to inform the Chief of when Shalom was sent to the Bureau, with Rahu and Christina thinking the Hush herself or Schorl would have informed the Chief of this rule…only to learn that was not the case.
Indeed, the Chief learned of this rule when someone, she is willing to bet her life that it was either Hella or EMP, saw that the former Hush looked tired and offered her some of Summer’s Special Brew Coffee.
What happened next is something known but to those who were there that day and who managed to gain access to the security footage, something which was soon locked behind the highest grade of confidentiality that Paradeisos could create, with the files being further encrypted by Summer and Langley as well.
Any attempts at acquiring an answer from those who witnessed what happened that day would be met with nothing but a thousand-mile stare, with several others whimpering and curling into the fetal position or turning and fleeing as swiftly as they can, with none daring to vocalize just what happened that day.
All anyone knows is that a substantial portion of the bureau needed repair done to it, several officials that had been adamantly against the Chief and the MBCC had to resign from their positions in disgrace once certain information regarding them was leaked, along with a rather sizable amount of collateral damage being done to several major roadways and side streets.
Schorl has since been given permission to destroy any source of caffeine Shalom manages to get her hands on.
18. She has been utilizing her abilities to commune with the Mania Monster made of her discarded humanity known as Rebel in a bid to earn its compliance and to be assemble to utilize it to its fullest one day, her primary reason for doing so being something of an emergency measure should Paradeisos attempt to remove her from play along with having an emergency ace in the hole for rainy days.
That it could be an additional tool for the Chief and a means of further defending her should anything befall the Hush, the monster having long made clear its own deep seated adoration for the Chief to her during their…’Conversations’, is but yet another lie she has come to tell herself.
That she also wants to reconnect with her lost humanity and to try and bond with it is something she has tried time and again to deny even to herself, yet as time has gone by, and her emotions have begun to return to her, she has found it increasingly hard to deny her true reason for wishing to do so.
The truth of the matter…is that all of this is being driven by Her ability to feel the loneliness of that missing part of herself and her desire to end it and fill the gaping wound torn in her own soul all those years ago by Paradeisos.
All she truly wants is to feel whole again.
19. She has an odd relationship with Hecate, somewhere between an almost sisterly bond and that of a mentor, with the former Hush often volunteering to accompany the younger sinner into the field to act as a mentor to her, that she still unconsciously tries to protect her is something neither will directly mention to one another.
The pair have likewise somewhat exchanged hobbies with Shalom managing to get Hecate interested in the horror genre, while Hecate has managed to convince Shalom to take up sketching and, to a lesser degree, painting as a hobby, something the Hush has taken the somewhat relaxed leash and observation she is under during her stay in the bureau to thoroughly enjoy.
That most of her works feature the Chief, several even having her in a state of undress or in various…compromising positions, is something that only the Hush and Hecate, who happened to mistake her sketchbook for an empty one, knows of.
It is safe to say the following exchange was quite awkward for the pair, though they were eventually able to work past it and continue their regular sessions of shared artistic endeavor…with the addition of a rather bright tag to mark which sketchbook is Shalom’s.
In a similar vein, Shalom has taken a rather sizable amount of time in teaching Hecate how to think strategically and to plan for various scenarios, with the young Sinner having shown a marked improvement in her Dispatches as result of the tutoring, that the Chief saw fit to praise Shalom was simply a bit of icing on the cake to her.
That said, many Sinner feel no small amount of unease at the idea of the Hush having taken the Chief’s Shadow under her wing, especially given the uncanny similarities the pair seem to share, the only comfort most have been able to find in the matter being their shared loyalty to the Chief.
Though even so, most fear the idea of just what Hecate could become if Shalom is allowed to mold her enough, thus all of those within the Bureau tend to keep an eye on the pair whenever they are together and they can.
20. She has mapped out the vast majority of the secret tunnels that span the Bureau, particularly all of the ones that lead to the kitchens and to the Chief’s room, with her making use of them to not only be able to sneak away to the kitchen for late night snacks or when she needs a drink during her work, with her also using the tunnels to deliver snacks to the Chief and to surprise her when she is working.
She also makes use of them to avoid certain parties and to surprise others, with her usage of them having gotten to the point that a not so small number of Sinners and staff are of the opinion that she is in possession of some form of teleportation device.
That Shalom seems to find some humor in these rumors and even tends to encourage them through her own actions and inactions has likewise led to no small amount of confusion and unease among the Sinner population due to the potential threat she could pose with such a device.
The Chief has tried time and again to dispel these rumors, only for them to constantly re-emerge after enough time has passed, something which has led to the Chief and the rest of the administration staff of the Bureau nearing the end of their rope in regards to how to handle the spreading rumors, with Paradeisos offering no help on the matter.
21. She has found something of a way to utilize her “Mark” in tandem with the Chief’s Shackles, a method of piggybacking off of the Shackles and utilizing her ability in a way that makes it considerably less obvious towards both the recipient of the ‘Mark’ and the Chief herself that one is under the Hush’s influence.
Even with this loophole removing her need for direct eye contact with her targets among the Sinners, it still requires for the targets to be in a heightened emotional state, and for the Chief to not be aware of her actions due to her ability to sense the influence through the Shackles and throttle it before it truly spreads.
The knowledge of this influencing power is strictly confidential so as to prevent any panic from spreading among the Sinners, especially among those who have prior experience with the Hush and her power., with the Chief having further heightened her security around the Hush, despite her claims of only wishing to use her power to aid the Chief.
That said, the loophole has a further weakness in that Sinners of strong enough will, or those who are particularly Contaminated, such as Nox, Dreya, and so on, can not only resist the influence of the Mark through this loophole, but can also somewhat retaliate against it, causing Shalom a sizable amount of pain when they do so, Nox’s own retaliation leading to her having a severe nosebleed and being near catatonic for several hours.
The final weakness of this ability is that she requires time to focus on the Shackles, and the slightest of disturbances can interrupt her ability, with contact with the chief being an additional means of furthering her power’s stability, though since this loophole came to her awareness she has made certain to be on her guard around her the vast majority of the time.
A final note is that by some means she has been able to keep this development secret from Paradeisos, using it as yet another tool in whatever schemes of rebellion she harbors against the organization.
22. She has given Thistle the equivalent to ‘The Shovel Talk’, with the exception of her talk involving her simply sitting in silence for a while as she looked Thistle in the eye, smiling as a triangle Mark flared in her eye as an unspoken warning of what awaits the assassin if anything befalls Christina.
Thistle’s reply simply being to lift up her sword and set it alight with her own silent vow, that should any of the Hush’s schemes cause harm to the detective, she would not live long enough to enjoy whatever form of victory she managed to achieve.
That the Hush has the audacity to smile at her actions a low chuckle slipping past her lips as she finished her tea before rising and walking past the assassin, pausing but to ruffle Thistle’s hair with an amused glint in her eyes as she left the assassin, only caused her to further despise the woman even if they could agree on protecting Christina.
That Thistle collapsed back into her chair as she fought to control her heart beat and suppress the adrenaline tearing through her body after Shalom had left the room, is something that she will deny ever happened that day.
23. She has met Christina’s step sister several times, each time ending in her being chased out of the house courtesy of the wheelchair bound girl either throwing objects at her or swatting at her with something as she tells her to stay away from Christina.
That said, she has not stopped her attempts at somewhat courting the young woman’s favor, having arranged for, and personally done, many things to make life easier for the young woman, such as aiding in her finding a stable source of income from home, and ensuring that she and Christina are able to visit whenever they wish.
Even with all that she has done however, the young woman still does not trust her, and does her best to try and mitigate any influence Shalom has over her, that said, she does appreciate Shalom’s efforts and has at least allowed for them to chat for more than 30 minutes before she starts chasing her out of her home.
24. While Shalom can be said to have a rather refined palate, she does also have a taste for more simple foods as well, especially given that Paradeisos did not allow her to indulge in them before due to her needing to maintain an image as their Envoy and their close monitoring of her.
As a result of this, and the somewhat increased freedom she has at the Bureau, she has gained the habit of searching for small hole in the wall restaurants and such to dine at with the Chief, Rahu, or Christina, with her having gained a reputation as an exceptionally generous patron.
More than once, Rahu has been caught off guard by seeing staff greet the former Hush by name and show her to her favored seat in the establishment, one time of note involving a rather portly chef who was easily double Rahu’s own size and weight leaving the kitchen to greet Shalom with an embrace as he sat her down and spoke with her for a little bit before going to cook her meal.
She has even tried some of the more exotic foods brought back by Wolverine from his hunts, such as the meat of Sand Worms, which she claims has an oddly gamey flavor to it that is not that unpleasant, and a form of lizard that she actually quite liked the taste of, much to everyone’s shock.
That said, she did refuse to even look at the scorpions and other multi-legged insectoid like creatures the Hunter caught, due in part to a reason that will be touched on below.
To Be Continued in Second Part due to 40,000 character Limit.