[He's tired, and it comes out gently enough, but this is not a point he's willing to compromise on. No, he's not interested in making himself a game piece on this particular board, and especially not when the people he loves are involved simply by knowing him.
He says,] Thank you, but I'm tired of pretending this disaster has only two sides. He can burn, for all I care, but I'm taking my family and leaving his blast area.
[Vengeance is for the short-sighted and the thought of playing the game exhausts him, but taking the shortest path out of the fray is clear-cut and immediate. He's had it; he's done.]
And if you think me a coward for that, that's your own problem. [Anna screamed it at him for leaving the beach, and he doesn't imagine she's the only one who might think so—] Keeping him placated isn't my job— literally. Whatever the rest of you need of me, I'll try; but not if it makes my people collateral.
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[He's tired, and it comes out gently enough, but this is not a point he's willing to compromise on. No, he's not interested in making himself a game piece on this particular board, and especially not when the people he loves are involved simply by knowing him.
He says,] Thank you, but I'm tired of pretending this disaster has only two sides. He can burn, for all I care, but I'm taking my family and leaving his blast area.
[Vengeance is for the short-sighted and the thought of playing the game exhausts him, but taking the shortest path out of the fray is clear-cut and immediate. He's had it; he's done.]
And if you think me a coward for that, that's your own problem. [Anna screamed it at him for leaving the beach, and he doesn't imagine she's the only one who might think so—] Keeping him placated isn't my job— literally. Whatever the rest of you need of me, I'll try; but not if it makes my people collateral.