#WordWeavers 9.29 — Who in your story gives the most pep talks?

The MC. It's that she always ends up being the leader through no intention of her own, mostly inertia and her need for efficiency; people see she's capable and let her. To get the job done, she'll do what's necessary, including holding her nose and giving silly pep talks. 

One particular time, the mob boss assigns to her bodyguard team a man and a woman she'd dealt with separately, the man having hit on her once at a bar in a restaurant. Turns out they're secretly what passes as "married" in this world, currently separated, and /kinda/ hate each other over expectations of fidelity. It falls upon her to convince the woman that she didn't murder someone—that she put him atop a building doesn't mean it's her fault that he fell off. Then the MC has to convince her to get back with her guy. A number of pep talks with both spouses follow. It's incidental that she ends up punching the guy in the nose during one of the pep talks. 

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