( Lying. Misled. As if a man grown, possessed of rank, education and possibility, might be steered unknowing towards circumstances that conveniently advantage him. As if Jin Guangyao were but a babe, blade ever wet-red in his hapless hands.
For a moment, he indicates none of his stupor. Then, carefully, the carefully neutral objection he had built on the bones of long-crafted discipline reshapes itself, unambiguously dismissive. )
Men who lie deceive themselves first. ( Enemies of their nature, of their name, of their purpose. Men who cannot abide whom they have allowed themselves to become. ) The deceived cannot be trusted.
( Allow him only a moment, shivered, when he looks into the welling, iced waters with the same petulantly murderous intent as everyone might. )
no subject
( Lying. Misled. As if a man grown, possessed of rank, education and possibility, might be steered unknowing towards circumstances that conveniently advantage him. As if Jin Guangyao were but a babe, blade ever wet-red in his hapless hands.
For a moment, he indicates none of his stupor. Then, carefully, the carefully neutral objection he had built on the bones of long-crafted discipline reshapes itself, unambiguously dismissive. )
Men who lie deceive themselves first. ( Enemies of their nature, of their name, of their purpose. Men who cannot abide whom they have allowed themselves to become. ) The deceived cannot be trusted.
( Allow him only a moment, shivered, when he looks into the welling, iced waters with the same petulantly murderous intent as everyone might. )
Shall we?