[he lifts a hand and stares at it, fingers slightly curled]
That is what I have to return to when we're finished here.
[he says that quietly, almost wistfully. funny, how that very revenge he fought so hard to see through seems so so unimportant now]
It's the only thing I have to return to. The culmination of years of hard work. Years of killing, of lying, of pretending to be the charming detective prince. Of building him up as much as I could, just to tear him down in one satisfactory explosion near the end.
I didn't run.
[but maybe he should have]
But it sounds as though neither you nor I were able to escape our fates.
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[he lifts a hand and stares at it, fingers slightly curled]
That is what I have to return to when we're finished here.
[he says that quietly, almost wistfully. funny, how that very revenge he fought so hard to see through seems so so unimportant now]
It's the only thing I have to return to. The culmination of years of hard work. Years of killing, of lying, of pretending to be the charming detective prince. Of building him up as much as I could, just to tear him down in one satisfactory explosion near the end.
I didn't run.
[but maybe he should have]
But it sounds as though neither you nor I were able to escape our fates.