[ His smile widens, as he lists a bit into By’s hand. A sucker for the face touching—maybe that’s an Orlesian thing, with faces so often masked or intricately painted or both, impossible to casually touch without risking a mess that everyone else will see. Or maybe it’s an everyone thing.
Either way: a sucker, but not distracted. ]
It matters why you do a thing. Don’t you think? Defending yourself, or defending someone else—that is not the same as doing it for money. And maybe you do things for other reasons, too. To be able to eat or to feel good at something or to impress someone. No one ever has just one reason for anything.
But you would not have done it if not for thinking it was right. For you that is a crucial piece. If you thought you were only hurting someone and not helping someone, somewhere, you would go hungry instead.
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Date: 2022-02-11 04:27 pm (UTC)[ His smile widens, as he lists a bit into By’s hand. A sucker for the face touching—maybe that’s an Orlesian thing, with faces so often masked or intricately painted or both, impossible to casually touch without risking a mess that everyone else will see. Or maybe it’s an everyone thing.
Either way: a sucker, but not distracted. ]
It matters why you do a thing. Don’t you think? Defending yourself, or defending someone else—that is not the same as doing it for money. And maybe you do things for other reasons, too. To be able to eat or to feel good at something or to impress someone. No one ever has just one reason for anything.
But you would not have done it if not for thinking it was right. For you that is a crucial piece. If you thought you were only hurting someone and not helping someone, somewhere, you would go hungry instead.