[He gives the little message a couple of careful readings before he replies. An animal's an animal, after all; there's no real moral difference. And she's on Red Team at eleven. So.]
People do what they have to, Arya. You do. I do. It's no different for anyone else here.
[...and yet, seeing it is different. But how to keep it out of his reply?]
01 It isn't really different. You killed your pigeons, because if you didn't you'd be dead. Self-defence. And somehow I don't believe you killed somebody for fun back home. You care too much.
02 Everyone has something they'd die to protect. That's easy. The question, then, becomes whether you would kill to protect it. And what you'd kill, and how many. I can't make that choice for you.
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[If this wasn't text, she'd sound very bitter and sarcastic there.]
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[Some things carry across even text. It was a vivid image, but he's not exactly in a position to judge her for surviving.]
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[That boy who worried about sexist language is still here, somewhere.]
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[She appreciates the inclusiveness there.]
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They say things like that at home. "You only live once".
You know some people here say they died already? That's what they came here from.
[He's thinking of Kagari, mainly, who's so loud and vibrant and makes a point of mentioning it.]
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[Different worlds, after all. Simon is interested, but he doesn't patronise her with Are you sure?—yet.]
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[He suspects a street trick—but then again, he remembers Gliese's steel collar with sickening vividity.]
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[Trying to lighten the mood. Outside, the wind is picking up.]
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[Like he didn't shoot a rabbitmouse right in front of her. -10 mood breaking, though.]
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[It doesn't feel like something he would say. But it is the way of the world they share.]
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Besides, everything feeds on something else. That's life.
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[She's not calling him out on it. She's actually a little pleasantly surprised. Maybe he's not as much of an idiot as she takes him for.]
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I'm almost hurt. You thought I was going to wring my hands about a pigeon?
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People do what they have to, Arya. You do. I do. It's no different for anyone else here.
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It isn't really different. You killed your pigeons, because if you didn't you'd be dead. Self-defence. And somehow I don't believe you killed somebody for fun back home. You care too much.
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Everyone has something they'd die to protect. That's easy. The question, then, becomes whether you would kill to protect it. And what you'd kill, and how many. I can't make that choice for you.
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