[Dryly,] I can afford detachment on the topic; I wasn't ever possessed. We wouldn't be having this conversation otherwise.
[Unlike Rich, Myr would never have had to make the choice between potential suicide and his demon claiming more victims; someone would have killed him well before that. It's an odd kind of comfort.
Protective as he might be of Rich, though, he can still recognize the intended compliment for what it is and it does speak to his own pride. Heady stuff, this mutual admiration.]
Much the same can be said of men, can't it? We've instincts and habits that constrain us to one choice or another--the patterns of our lives made manifest in our deeds, if we're not thoughtful about them. But the expectation's on us to redress the harm we've done even if we've done it thoughtlessly--to recognize we were in the wrong. Can something that refuses to do that--or, being more generous, was never capable of it to begin with--live rightly among men?
[A brief, thoughtful pause.] I did speak to it, if it hadn't told you. [And had expected his death his entire time, but here he is, alive--which spoke to the validity of some of his own assumptions.] The analogy to a demon is inexact--it's rather less, and more, than one of our pride demons.
I do think I can sympathize with it. [But that doesn't mean he's any more inclined to leave it alive.]
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[Unlike Rich, Myr would never have had to make the choice between potential suicide and his demon claiming more victims; someone would have killed him well before that. It's an odd kind of comfort.
Protective as he might be of Rich, though, he can still recognize the intended compliment for what it is and it does speak to his own pride. Heady stuff, this mutual admiration.]
Much the same can be said of men, can't it? We've instincts and habits that constrain us to one choice or another--the patterns of our lives made manifest in our deeds, if we're not thoughtful about them. But the expectation's on us to redress the harm we've done even if we've done it thoughtlessly--to recognize we were in the wrong. Can something that refuses to do that--or, being more generous, was never capable of it to begin with--live rightly among men?
[A brief, thoughtful pause.] I did speak to it, if it hadn't told you. [And had expected his death his entire time, but here he is, alive--which spoke to the validity of some of his own assumptions.] The analogy to a demon is inexact--it's rather less, and more, than one of our pride demons.
I do think I can sympathize with it. [But that doesn't mean he's any more inclined to leave it alive.]