If ever there was anything to be terrified of, it was that statement. He actually smiled a bit.]
Proof further, though I didn't need it, that it's a good thing I'll never have children.
[It's said with a bit of humour, meant as detrimental to him, not as an insult to Elizabeth. He's hardly been any sort of decent father. Provided her books but never spoke to her. Not to mention all that she didn't know. Bartering with a desperate young man, handing over a child to a religious zealot. He'd only tried to fix what he'd done in the first place.
To repay his own debt.]
Morals are different here than those I have known. I spent twenty years in Columbia, and twenty more before that in London's society. This is... a far more liberal place, and I...
[He can't help but chuckle faintly with a brief glance to Rosalind, of acknowledgement.]
And I may know how to work against a society's morals, but I was one to do so subtly, to mask my goings on. There isn't need for that here, and I haven't yet learned to shake those expectations. Of myself and others.
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If ever there was anything to be terrified of, it was that statement. He actually smiled a bit.]
Proof further, though I didn't need it, that it's a good thing I'll never have children.
[It's said with a bit of humour, meant as detrimental to him, not as an insult to Elizabeth. He's hardly been any sort of decent father. Provided her books but never spoke to her. Not to mention all that she didn't know. Bartering with a desperate young man, handing over a child to a religious zealot. He'd only tried to fix what he'd done in the first place.
To repay his own debt.]
Morals are different here than those I have known. I spent twenty years in Columbia, and twenty more before that in London's society. This is... a far more liberal place, and I...
[He can't help but chuckle faintly with a brief glance to Rosalind, of acknowledgement.]
And I may know how to work against a society's morals, but I was one to do so subtly, to mask my goings on. There isn't need for that here, and I haven't yet learned to shake those expectations. Of myself and others.