Dipper rolls his eyes. Ah, here it is. Good thing he has some experience dealing with demons. "Oh, right, let me guess, this is where you offer some kind of really generous deal where you help me and in exchange you get, oh, I don't know, a puppet?"
There are some sort of mistakes you really only need to make once before you realize they're a terrible idea. Letting a demon get control of your body was one of them. Dipper shakes his head. "No thanks. I'll figure something out."
He states plainly, and means it. It wouldn't be so easy with Pine Tree, who nurses grudges as an alcoholic cop would nurse a bottle of whiskey. No, he has to need Bill, and he does - he just doesn't know it yet.
Dipper frowns, inching closer to the circle in spite of himself. Of course he could use a little more power, especially if he is up against Eldritch gods, but he has learned enough to take what demons say with a grain of salt.
"What's in it for you?"
Since he really doubts even a lesser djinn would give him this information for free if they didn't have damn good reason to want to be bound to his will.
Hoo boy. Here come the questions. Pine Tree might be dumb, but he's not a complete idiot (this can make things simultaneously thrilling and irritating, in equal measure). The cloud appears to contemplate this query for a long moment, a moment that Bill foresaw in one of the many timelines wherein he is summoned by another name.
"...so what, you'd do it for the experience? You're saying that this would be the djinn equivalent of an unpaid internship?" That sounds fishy to Dipper. Maybe not all otherworldly beings are the same, but Bill sure wouldn't do things just for the experience. It makes him paranoid, which probably is a good way to be when dealing with demons. There are some mistakes you just don't need to make more than once.
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There are some sort of mistakes you really only need to make once before you realize they're a terrible idea. Letting a demon get control of your body was one of them. Dipper shakes his head. "No thanks. I'll figure something out."
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He states plainly, and means it. It wouldn't be so easy with Pine Tree, who nurses grudges as an alcoholic cop would nurse a bottle of whiskey. No, he has to need Bill, and he does - he just doesn't know it yet.
More or less.
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"What's in it for you?"
Since he really doubts even a lesser djinn would give him this information for free if they didn't have damn good reason to want to be bound to his will.
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More or less, it looks good on one's rèsumé.
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