( which is just one of the reasons why he's not crowing over his so-called "victory." one among others, but it was still important to remember: there had been plenty to get very close to death, plenty to go after their lives with murderous intent. he had just happened across that finish line first.
he knows that it's luck. luck, and cruelty. the latter he'd always had with him, though fostered more in these last few years than ever before, but the former is... new to him. )
That's a forward question.
( a beat. he continues, but the words are extremely guarded, like someone insisting on speaking behind a partition for anonymity. ) At the end of the last moon, he very nearly killed me. So, yes, it was satisfying to repay that in kind.
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Not for want of trying.
( which is just one of the reasons why he's not crowing over his so-called "victory." one among others, but it was still important to remember: there had been plenty to get very close to death, plenty to go after their lives with murderous intent. he had just happened across that finish line first.
he knows that it's luck. luck, and cruelty. the latter he'd always had with him, though fostered more in these last few years than ever before, but the former is... new to him. )
That's a forward question.
( a beat. he continues, but the words are extremely guarded, like someone insisting on speaking behind a partition for anonymity. ) At the end of the last moon, he very nearly killed me. So, yes, it was satisfying to repay that in kind.