Clarice blinked. This one didn't miss a trick, did he? His tone seemed very...careful. Which she appreciated, but it meant she was showing her troubles far too much to a complete stranger.
She exhaled slowly. "Ah suppose. And others...have gone so far off the rails that they...."
(Have to be put down like mad dogs because they're killing and skinning women like some sort of postmodern fucking Ed Gein, and are currently occupied with chasing my ass through the dark with a Desert Eagle and nightvision goggles so that he can peel my scalp off and wear my hair like a wig--)
--she swallowed. "...can't be trusted with any decision regardless." For the safety of others, if nothing else.
But even with the overwhelming knowledge that she'd done the right thing...even when she was doing it...Clarice still remembered looking down and seeing what she'd wrought on another human's body with her sidearm--and being horrified.
"Ah suppose that those who get responsibility for someone's life dumped on them like that wouldn't be worthy of the burden if they weren't damn well troubled by it," she said thoughtfully.
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[Clarice] "Good death" (tag Methos)
Date: 2006-01-23 06:55 pm (UTC)She exhaled slowly. "Ah suppose. And others...have gone so far off the rails that they...."
(Have to be put down like mad dogs because they're killing and skinning women like some sort of postmodern fucking Ed Gein, and are currently occupied with chasing my ass through the dark with a Desert Eagle and nightvision goggles so that he can peel my scalp off and wear my hair like a wig--)
--she swallowed. "...can't be trusted with any decision regardless." For the safety of others, if nothing else.
But even with the overwhelming knowledge that she'd done the right thing...even when she was doing it...Clarice still remembered looking down and seeing what she'd wrought on another human's body with her sidearm--and being horrified.
"Ah suppose that those who get responsibility for someone's life dumped on them like that wouldn't be worthy of the burden if they weren't damn well troubled by it," she said thoughtfully.