I don't particularly have anything to say to you, Jack. But you wished to know what it is I'm not telling you, and that I will oblige. [There's no bite in it, though. He's tired, too, and a few drinks in, to boot, not that that will make it difficult for him to have conversations.
Adam and Luke's presence is fine with him; something of a relief, even. He's still got one spell in him, but it's not enough for comfort if things turned ugly.]
I suppose you are within your rights to find me hypocritical for thinking that what you did to Rhys was an ugly thing. None of that has anything to do with the reasons I don't trust you. [He's killed plenty of people, after all. To him, there's a difference between killing someone who was terrified of you out of anger and killing for a purpose, but he isn't going to argue the point, it won't go anywhere. More than anything, it's not the murder, it's that Jack's treatment of Rhys and Elizabeth during that trial was so petty and cruel, and he can't abide cruelty. And yet, apparently, it was more complicated than that. If only that made him feel more comfortable with it.]
You've been dishonest in ways I feel are more self-serving than they are intended to obscure dangerous truths from the souvlaki, and in ways that I believe are reckless. For one thing, I've no idea what you've said of your role is true and what is false, but I do know and have known that you are Kampff. Given that, I can't help but suspect most of what you've said. You've either lied to us, or you've lied to the rest of the Kampff for reasons that are inexplicable to me, and therefore I am not inclined to trust you.
[That's a long speech for a guy who was probably recently seen drinking straight whiskey from a bottle, but it's fine. He's gone to his fair share of tense political functions completely in his cups; he can hold a rational conversation and keep his guard up without much difficulty. If anything, it just makes him more long winded.]
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Date: 2016-08-22 03:27 pm (UTC)Adam and Luke's presence is fine with him; something of a relief, even. He's still got one spell in him, but it's not enough for comfort if things turned ugly.]
I suppose you are within your rights to find me hypocritical for thinking that what you did to Rhys was an ugly thing. None of that has anything to do with the reasons I don't trust you. [He's killed plenty of people, after all. To him, there's a difference between killing someone who was terrified of you out of anger and killing for a purpose, but he isn't going to argue the point, it won't go anywhere. More than anything, it's not the murder, it's that Jack's treatment of Rhys and Elizabeth during that trial was so petty and cruel, and he can't abide cruelty. And yet, apparently, it was more complicated than that. If only that made him feel more comfortable with it.]
You've been dishonest in ways I feel are more self-serving than they are intended to obscure dangerous truths from the souvlaki, and in ways that I believe are reckless. For one thing, I've no idea what you've said of your role is true and what is false, but I do know and have known that you are Kampff. Given that, I can't help but suspect most of what you've said. You've either lied to us, or you've lied to the rest of the Kampff for reasons that are inexplicable to me, and therefore I am not inclined to trust you.
[That's a long speech for a guy who was probably recently seen drinking straight whiskey from a bottle, but it's fine. He's gone to his fair share of tense political functions completely in his cups; he can hold a rational conversation and keep his guard up without much difficulty. If anything, it just makes him more long winded.]
Are we satisfied?