[insightful? him? surely that must be a mistake...but it would be rude to question someone obviously much more intelligent than he was, so he keeps quiet about it. Henry would probably realize on his own soon enough.]
's a lotta stuff you need to be good at to be good at those things, though. Not like you can only use it for fighting 'nd stuff, you know?
[it's so funny, how naturally Styx leaps to lift up people who speak in the same manner he did about himself. but it was true, wasn't it? to kill and wage war, those skills...you could protect the people you cared about just as easily with them. those were things to be proud of, not play down.]
...maybe people just gotta look at it that way instead.
[not as single-minded animals who needed to slaughter or be slaughtered, but...uh, well, animals with options. he supposed. this train of thought is only going so far by itself.]
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's a lotta stuff you need to be good at to be good at those things, though. Not like you can only use it for fighting 'nd stuff, you know?
[it's so funny, how naturally Styx leaps to lift up people who speak in the same manner he did about himself. but it was true, wasn't it? to kill and wage war, those skills...you could protect the people you cared about just as easily with them. those were things to be proud of, not play down.]
...maybe people just gotta look at it that way instead.
[not as single-minded animals who needed to slaughter or be slaughtered, but...uh, well, animals with options. he supposed. this train of thought is only going so far by itself.]