“I appreciate what you’re trying to do, but you’re just making this worse.”
‘ if if that’s what you say i will respect your decision. ’
his lips curl just sightly ; he will lie if he says that he is happy with what she has said, he will be lying if he says that he is not terrified of how much of skulduggery is in this (once innocent, was she not?) little girl.
he is lying, and he wishes (oh, with all the stars in the sky with all the love he has buried in his heart) he wishes that she will open her eyes but she will not, for she does not even realize that they are closed and that she is blind
does she really not see? has he blinded her that much?
‘ but- but i hope you understand that all i wish is to help you, valkyrie. ’ ;; i wish you would accept my help, because i never accepted help when i needed it, and it has been my pride and arrogance that has destroyed me - don’t you see, little girl, that i have walked the same line between good and evil as you? do you not see, little girl, that there is a darkness in me just as there is a darkness in you. can you not see that i extend a hand to you?the other dead men will want your head, you ungrateful child.
but he does not think these thoughts, oh no, for he is an honorable man ( but did brutus not think he was an honorable man, before he plunged his knife into the great ceasar? bless, what a fitting analogy for he can still feel the knife slicing through his own neck )
‘ whatever … whatever happens, i would like you to know that i will be by your side. once-,’ and his words choke in his mouth and he feels the pain of betrayal crash down upon him once again, ‘ once a dead man, always a dead man. ’