[He lies back into the sand, stretching his limbs out like he wants it to consume him, to just sink into the earth and let it reclaim him. Wouldn't that be nice.]
I think everyone would have agreed that you didn't have the capacity to be involved. You weren't mobile enough. Too many pieces didn't fit. And then we would have gone around and around in circles until time forced our hand, made us all reckless.
Then someone would've said, well, we don't have a better answer, and there's only one person here with blood of that hue, and it's not much but it's not nothing. Mayhap someone would've tried to defend you, insist on your innocence. And then the question would've come, well. If not you, then who? How do we choose? Do we just descend into favoritism and personal bias? At that point, I expect most would welcome the opportunity to hang a volunteer for the cause.
For what little it's worth, I would've given you the choice. After everything, I wouldn't have forced you to watch me die in your place. But I would have done it, willingly, if it had turned out that you were more afraid of dying for someone else's crimes than you were of losing me.
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[He lies back into the sand, stretching his limbs out like he wants it to consume him, to just sink into the earth and let it reclaim him. Wouldn't that be nice.]
I think everyone would have agreed that you didn't have the capacity to be involved. You weren't mobile enough. Too many pieces didn't fit. And then we would have gone around and around in circles until time forced our hand, made us all reckless.
Then someone would've said, well, we don't have a better answer, and there's only one person here with blood of that hue, and it's not much but it's not nothing. Mayhap someone would've tried to defend you, insist on your innocence. And then the question would've come, well. If not you, then who? How do we choose? Do we just descend into favoritism and personal bias? At that point, I expect most would welcome the opportunity to hang a volunteer for the cause.
For what little it's worth, I would've given you the choice. After everything, I wouldn't have forced you to watch me die in your place. But I would have done it, willingly, if it had turned out that you were more afraid of dying for someone else's crimes than you were of losing me.