adamance: (born for this)
lexa ([personal profile] adamance) wrote in [community profile] station72 2016-10-18 07:05 am (UTC)

( If anyone is morally offended by me withholding information, then they are foolish to be surprised by it. )

[Her people would expect nothing less of her. She can declare it as a strength, because it is known as a strength. But then, she has shown a tendency of kicking men off buildings to remind them of how little she values their lives.

Being forthright has served her well.]


( But I believe that the guilt you feel over what you've done to that system is blinding you here, General. I won't be on the receiving end of your reparations to the Nest. )

[What had been a trickle of temptation has become more than that, dragged forward so she can wield it like a knife.]

( You are foolish to believe that this situation is anything like what we've come from. ) [She doesn't think he believes it, and it sounds more like she's calling out the lie in what she sees as a morality crusade.

As it is, as someone who believes in giving her mind and body to the next Commander, she knows the difference here. And there is a difference, beginning with one solitary fact: John Murphy and Bellamy Blake aside, these are not her people. They are nothing more than a means to an end, and should they prove to be a burden, then they can be cast aside.]

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