[ This time, Claude finally manages to smile, a little; it's not a particularly fetching expression, something thunderous in the slant of his brow, cold in the glint of his green eyes. ]
You can guess as to why they'd assign me such a thing. [ He had deflected, with everyone else. That he's a politician, that he's pragmatic, that everyone lies every now and then, that it's no more harmful than telling someone you think that colour really does look good on them. With Ethlyn, there's no need to do any such thing. She knows exactly what he was hiding, and why. She knows the degree to which he's betraying the people he claims to fight for, and knows that a good deal of his deception is due to sheer self-preservation. ]
They said I have to do something to show my true self, whatever that's supposed to mean. They refused to elaborate.
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[ This time, Claude finally manages to smile, a little; it's not a particularly fetching expression, something thunderous in the slant of his brow, cold in the glint of his green eyes. ]
You can guess as to why they'd assign me such a thing. [ He had deflected, with everyone else. That he's a politician, that he's pragmatic, that everyone lies every now and then, that it's no more harmful than telling someone you think that colour really does look good on them. With Ethlyn, there's no need to do any such thing. She knows exactly what he was hiding, and why. She knows the degree to which he's betraying the people he claims to fight for, and knows that a good deal of his deception is due to sheer self-preservation. ]
They said I have to do something to show my true self, whatever that's supposed to mean. They refused to elaborate.