"Oh, I had six more years to go then! If I'd known then what I know now, I would have invested a little more in bear traps. Hindsight's twenty twenty, right?" Still happily dancing around the subject at hand. As far as he was concerned, he didn't need to do any business with heaven.

Not unless their emissary planned on being a little more open with their goals here.

Something he finally got to, after this little verbal two step had carried on for long enough, it seemed.

"And what's that motivation going to be, sport? Not money, I know that! Power? I got plenty of that and the creeping suspicion that Heaven isn't too keen on me getting any more of it!

So, are you offering me a ticket out?"