[The answer is straightforward; in sharp contrast to the usual emotions that tend to require tight control, there isn't much of anything behind it. Just an answer, blunted and blank.]
You know I never would have done anything like that lightly. This isn't an exception. I just...
[The breath he draws in is tight. He doesn't stop what he's doing with his hands.]
At multiple times throughout my life, I've tried to save people. That's always been what I've wanted. For both myself and the region. To...help them, to achieve what others couldn't. It was a naive mindset. People don't often get what they want, after all.
I couldn't save anyone. From anything, really. From their own simple, filthy impulses. From their own selfish desires, from their tendencies to be people who take rather than give. From the dark future that was all I could see anymore.
I couldn't save anyone. That much has been plain to me for some time.
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[The answer is straightforward; in sharp contrast to the usual emotions that tend to require tight control, there isn't much of anything behind it. Just an answer, blunted and blank.]
You know I never would have done anything like that lightly. This isn't an exception. I just...
[The breath he draws in is tight. He doesn't stop what he's doing with his hands.]
At multiple times throughout my life, I've tried to save people. That's always been what I've wanted. For both myself and the region. To...help them, to achieve what others couldn't. It was a naive mindset. People don't often get what they want, after all.
I couldn't save anyone. From anything, really. From their own simple, filthy impulses. From their own selfish desires, from their tendencies to be people who take rather than give. From the dark future that was all I could see anymore.
I couldn't save anyone. That much has been plain to me for some time.