And what good are you to anyone if you get killed? Just another body somebody's going to have to pull from the streets. Can you even fight?
[The imagery is harsher than the words themselves. Honestly, he's surprised the old man's lasted this long when even M.K. is getting worn.
But like a horse resisting its bridle, he shakes his head, tossing off the implication Javert tries to hang around his neck. Irregardless of the fact he's out here, irregardless of what's true, he doesn't like the way the man frames it for reasons he doesn't look closely at just then.]
I'm dealing with the spirits. If you want to make yourself a target, I'm not going to stop you.
[He'll fight the spirits that attack him, but he doesn't want to be known as some kind of community babysitter. Fighting for the common good? What is the common good? It hasn't aligned with his definition of goodness in some time.]
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[The imagery is harsher than the words themselves. Honestly, he's surprised the old man's lasted this long when even M.K. is getting worn.
But like a horse resisting its bridle, he shakes his head, tossing off the implication Javert tries to hang around his neck. Irregardless of the fact he's out here, irregardless of what's true, he doesn't like the way the man frames it for reasons he doesn't look closely at just then.]
I'm dealing with the spirits. If you want to make yourself a target, I'm not going to stop you.
[He'll fight the spirits that attack him, but he doesn't want to be known as some kind of community babysitter. Fighting for the common good? What is the common good? It hasn't aligned with his definition of goodness in some time.]