You say that as though you have a choice in the matter, Kate.
[Her reassurance should be something that brings him comfort: it's what he wanted, isn't it? A sign that she's actually listening to him rather than deflecting his every -- and often nonverbal, unfortunately -- attempt to reach her? No, that wasn't it, not entirely. He wants her to see what she has, and perhaps her insistence is a way of showing that. How sad it is, he notes inwardly, that she wastes it on the unattainable.
The storm continues to rage outside, but what fury lingered in his voice drips away with the ink from his eye, from his nails, from his lips. Bit by bit, it is worn away, just as he is.]
You may choose to throw yourself into danger on behalf of others in the hopes that your sacrifice will change the outcome for the better... but there is little, if anything, you can do about this. That anyone can do.
[And just as he struggles to come to terms with her methods, so he has struggled to reconcile himself with his impending end. He's had years to deal with it, but has only found recently that he wants things to be different -- that he desperately wishes he could change his own fate with the same arguments that might change the minds of others, that might change how they see themselves and their own worth.]
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[Her reassurance should be something that brings him comfort: it's what he wanted, isn't it? A sign that she's actually listening to him rather than deflecting his every -- and often nonverbal, unfortunately -- attempt to reach her? No, that wasn't it, not entirely. He wants her to see what she has, and perhaps her insistence is a way of showing that. How sad it is, he notes inwardly, that she wastes it on the unattainable.
The storm continues to rage outside, but what fury lingered in his voice drips away with the ink from his eye, from his nails, from his lips. Bit by bit, it is worn away, just as he is.]
You may choose to throw yourself into danger on behalf of others in the hopes that your sacrifice will change the outcome for the better... but there is little, if anything, you can do about this. That anyone can do.
[And just as he struggles to come to terms with her methods, so he has struggled to reconcile himself with his impending end. He's had years to deal with it, but has only found recently that he wants things to be different -- that he desperately wishes he could change his own fate with the same arguments that might change the minds of others, that might change how they see themselves and their own worth.]