There is an accordingly longer delay before this reply, while Devin goes to a different room so he does not break the yimo with his bare hands. Almost ten minutes pass before he has wrestled back enough calm to answer her cutting words.
X is not responsible for Valdis' actions, nor does he deserve the maelstrom that's surely assaulting him. Devin knows this.]
I am what I am.
Some day, Valdis, perhaps you will stop trying to motivate me so viciously. I don't suppose it occurred to you that I lack your perfect equanimity, or that my weakness and my selfishness might make me less than useless to X until I could look at him and not see what she did to me?
Or maybe it did, and you just don't give a damn. Next time, Valdis, all you have to do is bloody ask.
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You are strong. Lie.
Your family was wrong. Lie.
There is an accordingly longer delay before this reply, while Devin goes to a different room so he does not break the yimo with his bare hands. Almost ten minutes pass before he has wrestled back enough calm to answer her cutting words.
X is not responsible for Valdis' actions, nor does he deserve the maelstrom that's surely assaulting him. Devin knows this.]
I am what I am.
Some day, Valdis, perhaps you will stop trying to motivate me so viciously. I don't suppose it occurred to you that I lack your perfect equanimity, or that my weakness and my selfishness might make me less than useless to X until I could look at him and not see what she did to me?
Or maybe it did, and you just don't give a damn. Next time, Valdis, all you have to do is bloody ask.
I will be there in an hour.