[But right now, he just wants to hurt you. And he's going to give you every chance to try and hurt him. Because you've certainly earned it for dealing with him all these months.]
[But the key word there is "try".]
Are you so militarily inept that you don't know what a tactical retreat looks like?
[And here comes the kick. He simply shifts his weight into it, and he barely moves when she hits him. It's a good kick, there's no denying it. But the flames don't frighten him, and he's been raised with people who've taught him at least enough about combat to not die horribly, so he knows how to take a hit.]
Harder. That would have been enough to take out a squirt, maybe.
[To say he's expecting perfection is the truth. Normally, he doesn't care. The only place perfection is expected in his life is on the job. But he's buried too many people, watched too many people make mistakes, and too many people here don't realize just how much the rules have changed.]
[When the worlds were whole, when people could live life mostly carefree, he'd have left this alone. But now, everyone else's decisions have a miserably important effect on his own life expectancy.]
We STILL know nothing about who's coming after us. You wanna root for yourself? You wanna feel good about getting screwed? That's your call. But I'm not the only one judging people by an insane metric.
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[He knows a lot more than he's saying.]
[But right now, he just wants to hurt you. And he's going to give you every chance to try and hurt him. Because you've certainly earned it for dealing with him all these months.]
[But the key word there is "try".]
Are you so militarily inept that you don't know what a tactical retreat looks like?
[And here comes the kick. He simply shifts his weight into it, and he barely moves when she hits him. It's a good kick, there's no denying it. But the flames don't frighten him, and he's been raised with people who've taught him at least enough about combat to not die horribly, so he knows how to take a hit.]
Harder. That would have been enough to take out a squirt, maybe.
[To say he's expecting perfection is the truth. Normally, he doesn't care. The only place perfection is expected in his life is on the job. But he's buried too many people, watched too many people make mistakes, and too many people here don't realize just how much the rules have changed.]
[When the worlds were whole, when people could live life mostly carefree, he'd have left this alone. But now, everyone else's decisions have a miserably important effect on his own life expectancy.]
We STILL know nothing about who's coming after us. You wanna root for yourself? You wanna feel good about getting screwed? That's your call. But I'm not the only one judging people by an insane metric.