[Part of him still doesn't feel like explaining, like just sitting back and watching is the better course. But she's caught him in the flow of this talk they're having, rolling through on the irritation and incredulity, and yeah, maybe the desire to land it like a blow.]
(Your people follow you because you're a nightblood, you killed all the other nightbloods and won the shiny computer chip in your head. Because you've killed a bunch more people since. Probably didn't even blink, because grounders only recognise strength, right? Real human emotion doesn't apply.)
[And he'd seen, first hand, how perfectly she had that down.]
(Hey, that's your people's way. But what it means is that you had it easy. You don't know how else to earn that, regular, not-blind loyalty, all the other things where people follow you.
I mean, counting today's proceedings, it's more like you totally forgot you had to.)
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[Part of him still doesn't feel like explaining, like just sitting back and watching is the better course. But she's caught him in the flow of this talk they're having, rolling through on the irritation and incredulity, and yeah, maybe the desire to land it like a blow.]
( Your people follow you because you're a nightblood, you killed all the other nightbloods and won the shiny computer chip in your head. Because you've killed a bunch more people since. Probably didn't even blink, because grounders only recognise strength, right? Real human emotion doesn't apply. )
[And he'd seen, first hand, how perfectly she had that down.]
( Hey, that's your people's way. But what it means is that you had it easy. You don't know how else to earn that, regular, not-blind loyalty, all the other things where people follow you.
I mean, counting today's proceedings, it's more like you totally forgot you had to. )