[He snaps, unsure who between them he's trying more fiercely to convince and frustrated that there is any convincing to be done at all. That Hector must consider him delicate and fragile - like a woman, his mind suggests, unhelpfully - if he thinks of himself as an actual threat.
Between Hector and the demons he's had, up against walls and pressed into floors and bent over his worktable, Isaac can't deny that there's no comparison: Hector is stronger than the company he chooses to keep. But what Hector also has that they don't are inhibitions. And though he has some fight in him when desperate - Isaac better understands this now, not all of him wary of it - he has never seemed to share his hunger for power and control. Not to the same extent, anyway, or they may not have both been alive to have this conversation.]
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Of course you couldn't have!
[He snaps, unsure who between them he's trying more fiercely to convince and frustrated that there is any convincing to be done at all. That Hector must consider him delicate and fragile - like a woman, his mind suggests, unhelpfully - if he thinks of himself as an actual threat.
Between Hector and the demons he's had, up against walls and pressed into floors and bent over his worktable, Isaac can't deny that there's no comparison: Hector is stronger than the company he chooses to keep. But what Hector also has that they don't are inhibitions. And though he has some fight in him when desperate - Isaac better understands this now, not all of him wary of it - he has never seemed to share his hunger for power and control. Not to the same extent, anyway, or they may not have both been alive to have this conversation.]