"Don't you ever scare yourself?" Jack's question tumbles out before he can stop it, silently curses that it sounds faintly desperate.
"You're like two people. And I don't mean how you're Oliver and how you're..." An ineffectual gesture at the leather and green that he wears, but it gets the point across and then it's like a dam breaking and everything rushes out.
"When you got here and I saw you that first time, I said you were angry and it worried me. But I saw you come back from it when you helped me and I thought you were going to be okay, I saw that it seemed like you knew people here and I... I just assumed that there were people you could get help from. But then last night you were... were hateful when you went after those kedan! Yeah, they were criminals and they were breaking the law and they probably deserved a good knock on the head for it but not like that. You were trying to kill something and it wasn't the kedan, they were just there like targets, like... like collateral damage. And you're not that person, Oliver. It's not the killing, it's not the fear, you can still... still do those things and maybe they're not right but they don't make you into someone you're not. And I should have checked, it was wrong to just think that everything would just turn out fine and I'm sorry."
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"You're like two people. And I don't mean how you're Oliver and how you're..." An ineffectual gesture at the leather and green that he wears, but it gets the point across and then it's like a dam breaking and everything rushes out.
"When you got here and I saw you that first time, I said you were angry and it worried me. But I saw you come back from it when you helped me and I thought you were going to be okay, I saw that it seemed like you knew people here and I... I just assumed that there were people you could get help from. But then last night you were... were hateful when you went after those kedan! Yeah, they were criminals and they were breaking the law and they probably deserved a good knock on the head for it but not like that. You were trying to kill something and it wasn't the kedan, they were just there like targets, like... like collateral damage. And you're not that person, Oliver. It's not the killing, it's not the fear, you can still... still do those things and maybe they're not right but they don't make you into someone you're not. And I should have checked, it was wrong to just think that everything would just turn out fine and I'm sorry."