[ An immortal assassin that verges on being an eco-terrorist who believes the world would be better off without humanity. Well, that's familiar territory. Stephen does his best to keep it off his face as Damian goes on.
And he does go on. On to things Stephen may have been able to guess at the nature of, but not the scale. The difficulty in having lived life at the size they have, suspended away from normality, is that their pasts take on a scope that's near incomprehensible. Their truths are so vast as to be stories, to be fictions.
Attributing deaths and heartlessness to Damian is easy in one sense - Stephen knows what people are capable of, has witnessed it, the acts he describes have been committed by someone somewhere and why not him? - but impossible in another.
He knows who Damian is now. His past is important here only as context for his present. And Stephen will have something to say when the story's all told, but it isn't finished yet.
Stephen's steady in meeting Damian's gaze. There's no hint of distress or discontent in his expression, no signs of an internal reassessment of him following what he's heard. When Damian trails off, it's a leading question and not some resolute answer that follows. ]
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And he does go on. On to things Stephen may have been able to guess at the nature of, but not the scale. The difficulty in having lived life at the size they have, suspended away from normality, is that their pasts take on a scope that's near incomprehensible. Their truths are so vast as to be stories, to be fictions.
Attributing deaths and heartlessness to Damian is easy in one sense - Stephen knows what people are capable of, has witnessed it, the acts he describes have been committed by someone somewhere and why not him? - but impossible in another.
He knows who Damian is now. His past is important here only as context for his present. And Stephen will have something to say when the story's all told, but it isn't finished yet.
Stephen's steady in meeting Damian's gaze. There's no hint of distress or discontent in his expression, no signs of an internal reassessment of him following what he's heard. When Damian trails off, it's a leading question and not some resolute answer that follows. ]
What did happen?