[ It surely couldn't hurt, she thinks. For a guy who's so smart and so careful about his plans and other machinations, it seems wild to her that he wouldn't give the consequences some thought. Especially when it never seems to make him feel any better--his smiles had never seemed truly satisfied, back in Russia. ]
And you know, everything you're trying to say you expect me to do... I could say the same to you. Didn't you just say we're all on the same level, here? You could also do whatever you wanted and get away with it.
[ She doesn't know how he feels about her, in the end. Surely he hates her--for ruining his chances a second time, for the death of a Servant he'd clearly adored in his own prickly way, for not saving him when that priest had swept in to claim him. There are a lot of reasons, beyond her "stealing" his first opportunity, for him to resent her. The happiness she'd felt from him during that ritual hadn't been anything good.
She can't blame him, but nor is she willing to bow to that just to appease him. The part of her that wants to please people--to make them happy, to accommodate, to do her part to make things better--isn't something she can allow here. ]
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[ It surely couldn't hurt, she thinks. For a guy who's so smart and so careful about his plans and other machinations, it seems wild to her that he wouldn't give the consequences some thought. Especially when it never seems to make him feel any better--his smiles had never seemed truly satisfied, back in Russia. ]
And you know, everything you're trying to say you expect me to do... I could say the same to you. Didn't you just say we're all on the same level, here? You could also do whatever you wanted and get away with it.
[ She doesn't know how he feels about her, in the end. Surely he hates her--for ruining his chances a second time, for the death of a Servant he'd clearly adored in his own prickly way, for not saving him when that priest had swept in to claim him. There are a lot of reasons, beyond her "stealing" his first opportunity, for him to resent her. The happiness she'd felt from him during that ritual hadn't been anything good.
She can't blame him, but nor is she willing to bow to that just to appease him. The part of her that wants to please people--to make them happy, to accommodate, to do her part to make things better--isn't something she can allow here. ]