But it's the really clever ones who are the worst. They're always so certain they can outsmart a demon--that they'll be the ones in control. [It never works, his tone says.] There's arguments--dismissals--for everything you can tell them, because even if everyone else who's done it has come to grief, they're better than that--smarter than that.
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But it's the really clever ones who are the worst. They're always so certain they can outsmart a demon--that they'll be the ones in control. [It never works, his tone says.] There's arguments--dismissals--for everything you can tell them, because even if everyone else who's done it has come to grief, they're better than that--smarter than that.
Fucking hubris.