He did not ask for sympathy, or relief from his guilt β in the same way that Silco did not expect anyone to understand what it was that he did. Who he did it for. He did not need people to understand him.
But it didn't feel... wrong, to know that were he to make that choice, there was a mirror somewhere that would do the same. That there was someone else that would let the lot of it burn, were it needed. That everyone else β everyone β fell short.
He reached up, his fingers curled around his hand, resting on top of it. ]
No, they can't, can they?
[ Monsters, perhaps. Guilty monsters, vengeful monsters, but monsters. They would always become that which they needed to, wouldn't they? ]
They've already tried to take everything else, but this, at least, they cannot.
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He did not ask for sympathy, or relief from his guilt β in the same way that Silco did not expect anyone to understand what it was that he did. Who he did it for. He did not need people to understand him.
But it didn't feel... wrong, to know that were he to make that choice, there was a mirror somewhere that would do the same. That there was someone else that would let the lot of it burn, were it needed. That everyone else β everyone β fell short.
He reached up, his fingers curled around his hand, resting on top of it. ]
No, they can't, can they?
[ Monsters, perhaps. Guilty monsters, vengeful monsters, but monsters. They would always become that which they needed to, wouldn't they? ]
They've already tried to take everything else, but this, at least, they cannot.