Kyoki Chudoku wrote:Foxfound wrote:Bill looked at her.
"Quite frankly, I don't trust you to take care of her. No offense."
He glanced at the clone.
"No, I think I can take care of this. She seems to have retained enough of her intelligence and self to be helped. It's the least I can do to give her something closer to a normal life."
”Why not? Surely if there’s one thing I can be trusted to do, it’s change people’s minds against their will, right? Besides, I find myself rather lacking in...compatriots, at the moment. She is an aberration. There’s no getting around that. But I happen to be interested in aberrations. Besides, you’re going to fail. You’ll be too soft. That’s the basic difference that’ll cause you problems. You care about her wellbeing to some extent, and I don’t. You mighg say that makes me less qualified. I say it means I can do what is necessary without being shadowed forever by regret and sorrow if I fail.”
"You're not really helping your case here. I'll be frank. I might not be able to stop you from taking her."
He produced a sort of rifle from nowhere in particular, called a lightning rod.
"But I'll try if necessary. And in any case, there's no defeating my brother."
He remained strangely cheerful during all of this. Such was his nature.