"I'm not sure I believe that honesty is the best policy."
He takes the first step and no more, but maybe that says enough. Maybe the willingness to close the distance, even this small amount, will say the things he doesn't articulate. The man's gaze lands on Bruce intermittently and then, as if proving a point, it drifts away. He suspects that too is meant to serve a purpose. To allow the veneer of privacy, to reassure.
"In my experience, people ask because they're looking for a specific answer." He doesn't mean to disparage. He's met many people in his relatively brief life and there are few he would consider evil. He's unconvinced that any them are truly so. That they're irredeemable or uncomplicated. Even Malone, who he had spent years thinking of as a monster, was just a man. "When they don't hear it, they want to believe they're capable of changing it."
please stop hurting me this way
He takes the first step and no more, but maybe that says enough. Maybe the willingness to close the distance, even this small amount, will say the things he doesn't articulate. The man's gaze lands on Bruce intermittently and then, as if proving a point, it drifts away. He suspects that too is meant to serve a purpose. To allow the veneer of privacy, to reassure.
"In my experience, people ask because they're looking for a specific answer." He doesn't mean to disparage. He's met many people in his relatively brief life and there are few he would consider evil. He's unconvinced that any them are truly so. That they're irredeemable or uncomplicated. Even Malone, who he had spent years thinking of as a monster, was just a man. "When they don't hear it, they want to believe they're capable of changing it."