Even a person down on their luck and stripped of their means has something left. Sometimes it's all they have left, and you better bet they fight tooth and nail for it! It brings out an energy for life that they'd once though irredeemable.
On the other hand, if that thing can't be found without, then it can usually be found within. A sense of self, memories of a better time, that sort of thing... In which case I would have to take that from them, and they'd have to learn to be a new person from its absence.
Sometimes what ends up being most important to a person is something they don't even realize, and only learn more about themselves after it's been taken away.
[If he notices the particular choice of words, or how long it took for the reply to come through, he's certainly not making it apparent. He's simply... explaining the mechanics of his work. Surely, that's all.]
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Even a person down on their luck and stripped of their means has something left. Sometimes it's all they have left, and you better bet they fight tooth and nail for it! It brings out an energy for life that they'd once though irredeemable.
On the other hand, if that thing can't be found without, then it can usually be found within. A sense of self, memories of a better time, that sort of thing... In which case I would have to take that from them, and they'd have to learn to be a new person from its absence.
Sometimes what ends up being most important to a person is something they don't even realize, and only learn more about themselves after it's been taken away.
[If he notices the particular choice of words, or how long it took for the reply to come through, he's certainly not making it apparent. He's simply... explaining the mechanics of his work. Surely, that's all.]