[He acknowledges with a small sigh as Ian points it out, busying himself with messing with his drink.]
I'm just... In the habit, I guess.
[Of choosing his words carefully. And that's something he's not at all pleased about realizing, because it says something about the state of mind he's in, and has been in for a long time now; he'll just add that to the list of things he's aware of but also ignoring.
But that's way more than enough sharing and being honest from him, so it's time to steer this conversation.]
Desperation can cause people to engage in behavior that they wouldn't normally, so it made sense for people to be kind of terrible in Hadriel and--from what it sounds like--your world, but I don't think most of the Displaced realized just how good their situation was. It's hard to give them desperation as an explanation, let alone excuse, for their behavior.
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[He acknowledges with a small sigh as Ian points it out, busying himself with messing with his drink.]
I'm just... In the habit, I guess.
[Of choosing his words carefully. And that's something he's not at all pleased about realizing, because it says something about the state of mind he's in, and has been in for a long time now; he'll just add that to the list of things he's aware of but also ignoring.
But that's way more than enough sharing and being honest from him, so it's time to steer this conversation.]
Desperation can cause people to engage in behavior that they wouldn't normally, so it made sense for people to be kind of terrible in Hadriel and--from what it sounds like--your world, but I don't think most of the Displaced realized just how good their situation was. It's hard to give them desperation as an explanation, let alone excuse, for their behavior.