[ Renne had said it best, once - the Grandmaster saw only two kinds of people: useful, and useless. Using children had been more the exception than the rule, but it was an exception the society wasn't above making, given that there was one particularly useful quality that was harder to find the older one was.
Malleability.
So the flicker of distaste in Elliot's reaction doesn't offend him. Nobody hates what he's become the way Joshua himself does. But it's also beyond undoing, and so his own age doesn't matter much no matter how disgusting the general principle is. He is what he is. There's no fixing him now. ]
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[ Renne had said it best, once - the Grandmaster saw only two kinds of people: useful, and useless. Using children had been more the exception than the rule, but it was an exception the society wasn't above making, given that there was one particularly useful quality that was harder to find the older one was.
Malleability.
So the flicker of distaste in Elliot's reaction doesn't offend him. Nobody hates what he's become the way Joshua himself does. But it's also beyond undoing, and so his own age doesn't matter much no matter how disgusting the general principle is. He is what he is. There's no fixing him now. ]