( An easy answer - said breezily, though what he means is that he condemns them blindly to death. He knows where his own flaw lies; why he has suffered as he has, is suffering as he does, and will suffer in the days coming - it's knowing someone and finding things within them to treasure that does him in. )
Do you remember what Cain said about the people I beheaded?
( He pulls back here, just a little, to look to Ish with a soft gaze - full of adoration. His hands some around to caress Ish's cheek, his jaw... his neck, where it'd been nearly severed. )
I did that all for Balthazar. And I know they must have been people with stories - people I could have come to love. But I didn't want to. And... even if I came to know them, came to like them... I still want to choose you, before all of them.
( It's why he's decided to kill, and reap no benefit but the potential for growth (failing that - to simply collapse under his own grief, if he's not strong enough, not worthy enough, to survive). )
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( An easy answer - said breezily, though what he means is that he condemns them blindly to death. He knows where his own flaw lies; why he has suffered as he has, is suffering as he does, and will suffer in the days coming - it's knowing someone and finding things within them to treasure that does him in. )
Do you remember what Cain said about the people I beheaded?
( He pulls back here, just a little, to look to Ish with a soft gaze - full of adoration. His hands some around to caress Ish's cheek, his jaw... his neck, where it'd been nearly severed. )
I did that all for Balthazar. And I know they must have been people with stories - people I could have come to love. But I didn't want to. And... even if I came to know them, came to like them... I still want to choose you, before all of them.
( It's why he's decided to kill, and reap no benefit but the potential for growth (failing that - to simply collapse under his own grief, if he's not strong enough, not worthy enough, to survive). )