[It's a while before he replies, because there's truth and then there's honesty. Perhaps if Cold was there he would've said 'death', which is true enough, but this form of talking doesn't feel entirely real.]
He's a naive kid who's a few centuries behind the curve compared to his inmate. I'd like to make sure he doesn't wind up completely broken by the experience.
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Date: 2018-03-15 07:31 pm (UTC)And that lesson was?
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Date: 2018-03-15 07:34 pm (UTC)A matter of exchange. If something is taken, something else might be taken in turn.
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Date: 2018-03-15 07:38 pm (UTC)You took his life, he took your freedom? Powers?
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Date: 2018-03-15 07:41 pm (UTC)Choice.
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Date: 2018-03-15 07:42 pm (UTC)Listen, I know you don't know me from Adam, so I appreciate the one-on-one here.
We talking about the choice to stay dead?
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Date: 2018-03-15 07:46 pm (UTC)How'd you kill him? He just sort of fell over; couldn't see any external wounds, not that I went poking around too much.
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Date: 2018-03-15 07:49 pm (UTC)Was this a one-time deal, or a rotating schedule kind of thing?
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Date: 2018-03-15 07:54 pm (UTC)Or the Admiral, I suppose.
[While he's here, he can't know for sure that Odd's heart hadn't been restored.]
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Date: 2018-03-15 07:55 pm (UTC)How's the magic work?
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Date: 2018-03-15 09:55 pm (UTC)I've been to prison, and I've been an inmate here, and I've lost the ability to make choices more than once.
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Date: 2018-03-15 10:03 pm (UTC)I'd lie to you about my motivations, but you sound like you'd be able to tell if I did.
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Date: 2018-03-15 10:13 pm (UTC)He's of same age as my eldest son was, which is a man grown, however much it can feel like it is not much more than a child.
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Date: 2018-03-15 10:18 pm (UTC)[And he's never been one to think that qualifiers make it any better.]
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Date: 2018-03-15 10:24 pm (UTC)You should avoid the feeling that you can understand my situation, that which makes you tempted to hold out any sympathy for me.
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Date: 2018-03-15 10:37 pm (UTC)But we're getting off-topic here. My problem is preventing this from happening in the future.
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