@reportsis ↳ continued from here.
He wants to tell Ainsley that sickness such as her father’s is made. Crafted carefully and forcefully through a primordial soup of opportunity, genes, and fermentation. Circumstance and aligned personality disorders and the now mocked, refrigerator mother of the 1950s to rear someone capable of murder. But that would still be inheriting such a sickness, wouldn’t it? Absorbing the urge. Learning it.
Will gives Ainsley a long look, eyes fixed somewhere just above her head, and finally answers quietly, ❝There’s no denying that certain pathologies can be...Hereditary, if that is what you mean. But there are usually signs along the way. Behaviors that precede and can make identifying people like your father easier.❞ A pause, then, ❝Pathological lying, can be one of them.❞
He leans forward and rests elbows on his knees, chin in his hands. ❝Do you consider lying and secrets to be of the same nature?❞