Violence is often the answer a traumatized and battered animal gives to kindness.
It simply takes patience. We had made a little bit of progress. He'd wanted to know what it was like to live a life he enjoyed, and I'd promised I'd help him find a way.
You're right. He didn't know how else to be. But he was trying.
... We did not speak often, but when we did, he talked at length about how he did not desire redemption... but it was at such a length, that I could not help but think that he wanted someone to tell him otherwise. To convince him that it was possible, even for him.
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We knew such events were possible, and perhaps even likely, but it is no less disconcerting...
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A good amount of us were prepared for it, but it doesn't make it any less unsettling. Or any less sad. [ his fingers sort of curl in his fur. ]
Are you alright, Miss Euphausia? Were you friends with Adolphe? [ he doesn't bother asking about dan ]
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What about you? Were you friends with either victim?
[ she'll be nice and include dan ]
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... I'd hoped to help Brimstone find purpose. [ he says, finally. ] I didn't know Adolphe, but I know most people here enjoyed his presence.
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... I wish he could have found it, too. I feared he was walking a path to his own destruction... but I think he truly did not know how else to be.
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It simply takes patience. We had made a little bit of progress. He'd wanted to know what it was like to live a life he enjoyed, and I'd promised I'd help him find a way.
You're right. He didn't know how else to be. But he was trying.
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Would that there was still time for that...
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His soul isn't lost entirely, or... that's what I've been led to believe. Maybe there will be time.
[ he doesn't sound like he believes that though. ]
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