[Well that answers that unspoken question: Northern it is, then.
Adam understands, to some degree (as much as he can really say he understands, given what little he's heard so far.) It's one thing to rise up as part of the oppressed, but when one's part of the elite… There's this responsibility, one feels, to use every advantage they've been granted to change things for the better. Whether it's magic, or augmentations, or anything else.
(It's that conviction what's been the only thing keeping him from completely losing it every time he accidentally catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror.)]
The world could use more people that think the way you do. Either of our worlds.
["Gentle" isn't a word anyone could possibly use to describe it, but Adam's voice loses a bit of its usual edge when he says that. It's too tempting to think of himself as one person against the world, that he can trust no one but himself… But if even a quarter of the people on the ship have the same attitude Dorian has, then things could be different here.]
Anyone who's been in power that long– they've found ways to hold onto it. [A pause.] But if I know one thing for sure, it's that nothing lasts forever.
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Adam understands, to some degree (as much as he can really say he understands, given what little he's heard so far.) It's one thing to rise up as part of the oppressed, but when one's part of the elite… There's this responsibility, one feels, to use every advantage they've been granted to change things for the better. Whether it's magic, or augmentations, or anything else.
(It's that conviction what's been the only thing keeping him from completely losing it every time he accidentally catches a glimpse of himself in the mirror.)]
The world could use more people that think the way you do. Either of our worlds.
["Gentle" isn't a word anyone could possibly use to describe it, but Adam's voice loses a bit of its usual edge when he says that. It's too tempting to think of himself as one person against the world, that he can trust no one but himself… But if even a quarter of the people on the ship have the same attitude Dorian has, then things could be different here.]
Anyone who's been in power that long– they've found ways to hold onto it. [A pause.] But if I know one thing for sure, it's that nothing lasts forever.