...If I explained, could you understand? For all of our similarities, we are different, you and I. We hold different things high as a focus, as importance. If I dropped all brevity and told you that there, at the very beginning, I had the power to leave still if I wished, and it was Dai and he alone that made my wish change to staying, could you understand why? Could you understand the draw of a place that was tearing itself apart, and the person who stood as the fulcrum of its salvation and destruction at once?
Can you understand, Max? How he was the only one who was truthful with me from the start--who claimed nothing but a mutual using without any lies of affection. Who was interested in me for my irregularities, instead of despising me for them. Who was confident that I could sway his past self, confident that I could do whatever I chose to.
He and I were alike.
[ The last word is spoken heavily, as if it meant everything. Two predators, creatures shaped and created for a purpose, in worlds full of sheep. Yes, that... That unity. It meant something. It meant all. ]
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...If I explained, could you understand? For all of our similarities, we are different, you and I. We hold different things high as a focus, as importance. If I dropped all brevity and told you that there, at the very beginning, I had the power to leave still if I wished, and it was Dai and he alone that made my wish change to staying, could you understand why? Could you understand the draw of a place that was tearing itself apart, and the person who stood as the fulcrum of its salvation and destruction at once?
Can you understand, Max? How he was the only one who was truthful with me from the start--who claimed nothing but a mutual using without any lies of affection. Who was interested in me for my irregularities, instead of despising me for them. Who was confident that I could sway his past self, confident that I could do whatever I chose to.
He and I were alike.
[ The last word is spoken heavily, as if it meant everything. Two predators, creatures shaped and created for a purpose, in worlds full of sheep. Yes, that... That unity. It meant something. It meant all. ]