[ A "good person". For that, a small wistful smile. ]
Ah, no. I am not good, cherie. I am selfish and vengeful and both capable and willing to be terribly cruel in it, caring not a whit for the injury of any others who stand in my path unless they are important to me, and that is hardly the whole of it.
But I shall at least grant that there is enough of something good in me to continue to find myself concerned with "getting it".
I have arranged for men to be killed for no other reason than they caused me injury.
[ She lifts her shoulders and frees a hand to gesture the lack of worry it causes her. ]
There are a great number of things I should do for the preservation of this world, but I suspect only inasmuch as it aids me or those I have come to care for as well. Good acts do not mean good actors.
But, to the original subject of our conversation, nor do evil acts mean evil actors. You may well find change has been planted in your erstwhile foe.
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Date: 2019-03-17 06:52 pm (UTC)[ A little sigh, and a shrug. ]
You were always a good person, under all the masks and the giggles. I hardly had to state anything emphatically until you - you know - got it.
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Date: 2019-03-17 07:14 pm (UTC)Ah, no. I am not good, cherie. I am selfish and vengeful and both capable and willing to be terribly cruel in it, caring not a whit for the injury of any others who stand in my path unless they are important to me, and that is hardly the whole of it.
But I shall at least grant that there is enough of something good in me to continue to find myself concerned with "getting it".
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Date: 2019-03-17 07:17 pm (UTC)Oh, come on, Lexie.
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Date: 2019-03-17 07:41 pm (UTC)[ She lifts her shoulders and frees a hand to gesture the lack of worry it causes her. ]
There are a great number of things I should do for the preservation of this world, but I suspect only inasmuch as it aids me or those I have come to care for as well. Good acts do not mean good actors.
But, to the original subject of our conversation, nor do evil acts mean evil actors. You may well find change has been planted in your erstwhile foe.
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Date: 2019-03-17 07:47 pm (UTC)[ A sigh, and a flick of a hair from her face. ]
But...Maybe. And if it doesn't - Who knows. Maybe being one of the oppressed, rather than an oppressor, will be good for him.
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Date: 2019-03-17 07:51 pm (UTC)For once I find myself glad you think so.
As to him, I imagine it will be terribly enlightening.