Nor I, mine, for as much good as I may do. It's still a very difficult and sometimes saddening job.
Still, I'm glad you've survived what sounds like a truly trying place in the world. And that I've had the chance to make your acquaintance.
( If she knew it were for the sake of outright monsters it would be one thing, but violence in general is just another aspect of the world she's come to terms with and works to clean up after. It's better to say "if it isn't pointlessly cruel". If innocent people aren't drug into it, children, animals— she tolerates much and never seeks to scorn anyone. She's expected to give proper care to people who have done terrible things in the name of their people, their countries, their homes. It isn't her place to cast judgement.
Still, sparing her that on a first conversation will have been appreciated if she ever learns of it. It's easier for her to get to know a person without immediately weighing their "sins" with it.
And he hasn't been awful. Parroted things back occasionally, as if in a physical conversation where he says it back to memorize it, but it's been a good conversation and he seems to have kept up with her. She didn't want to pry when he'd made it sound quite awful out the gate, but she is curious about where he's come from. Why he paints it the way he does. )
I'll appreciate that, thank you.
What sort of food do you like to eat? I'll find a good place and let you know where it is next I hear from you.
( That's all right dear she can deal with awkward and then some. Even showing up and being unable to speak won't so much as trip her up for a second. She'll adapt. )
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Still, I'm glad you've survived what sounds like a truly trying place in the world. And that I've had the chance to make your acquaintance.
( If she knew it were for the sake of outright monsters it would be one thing, but violence in general is just another aspect of the world she's come to terms with and works to clean up after. It's better to say "if it isn't pointlessly cruel". If innocent people aren't drug into it, children, animals— she tolerates much and never seeks to scorn anyone. She's expected to give proper care to people who have done terrible things in the name of their people, their countries, their homes. It isn't her place to cast judgement.
Still, sparing her that on a first conversation will have been appreciated if she ever learns of it. It's easier for her to get to know a person without immediately weighing their "sins" with it.
And he hasn't been awful. Parroted things back occasionally, as if in a physical conversation where he says it back to memorize it, but it's been a good conversation and he seems to have kept up with her. She didn't want to pry when he'd made it sound quite awful out the gate, but she is curious about where he's come from. Why he paints it the way he does. )
I'll appreciate that, thank you.
What sort of food do you like to eat? I'll find a good place and let you know where it is next I hear from you.
( That's all right dear she can deal with awkward and then some. Even showing up and being unable to speak won't so much as trip her up for a second. She'll adapt. )