[Can't he at least give her the pleasant comfort is a little half lie? Truth told in a particular way to make it sound more pleasant? People work so much better when there's a change for optimism. Particularly boys like this one, she thinks. All she needs to do is make hope seem like a glimmer on the horizon, and all sorts of things suddenly become possible to the grimmest sorts.]
Better with you than without, as wild an idea as that lovely conversation we all had earlier might make it seem. I suspect we actually have a good chance of discovering who our Enemy is working with, but what I don't know is how quickly we'll manage to do it or if we'll be arranged to shift the balance of the game once it's discovered. Finding out who they are is all well and good, but that does us nothing if we can't convince everyone else they're bad news without blowing our own cover.
That one I haven't quite figured out yet. But I'm hoping with more of us hanging around, we'll be more likely to make unexpectedly useful friends.
[Tactfully, she avoids all mention of potential death. It simply doesn't beat becoming paranoid about.]
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[Can't he at least give her the pleasant comfort is a little half lie? Truth told in a particular way to make it sound more pleasant? People work so much better when there's a change for optimism. Particularly boys like this one, she thinks. All she needs to do is make hope seem like a glimmer on the horizon, and all sorts of things suddenly become possible to the grimmest sorts.]
Better with you than without, as wild an idea as that lovely conversation we all had earlier might make it seem. I suspect we actually have a good chance of discovering who our Enemy is working with, but what I don't know is how quickly we'll manage to do it or if we'll be arranged to shift the balance of the game once it's discovered. Finding out who they are is all well and good, but that does us nothing if we can't convince everyone else they're bad news without blowing our own cover.
That one I haven't quite figured out yet. But I'm hoping with more of us hanging around, we'll be more likely to make unexpectedly useful friends.
[Tactfully, she avoids all mention of potential death. It simply doesn't beat becoming paranoid about.]