hello hello.

[shitglasses]

the FIRST LINE OF DIALOGUE meme

• generate some dialogue.
• stick it in your top level.
• respond to others.
• have fun! or don't. i'm not the boss.

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[hard_decisions]

Of course it was always in me. It's exactly what I was trained for. It's how the Watcher's Council does business. They're ruthless.

[With a dark chuckle, he adds-]

Were, I suppose.

[dublinbrogue]

Always wondered 'bout how Watchers were trained. An' they start you lot off as tykes don't they?

[ A drink of his beer later he adds. ]

Do you think you're still ruthless, bud? Or maybe all o' this changed y? I tend t' think we can all change if we want to. Question is, do you want to?

[hard_decisions]

[The questions were becoming... frustrating. Not least because he knows exactly how pertinent they are. He stalls for time by finishing his glass.

He had to give Doyle this: Under the unassumingly folksy persona, he understood people better than one would expect. It was genuinely disarming sometimes.

Wesley rubs at the bridge of his nose, staring down at the empty cup. For a moment, he ponders whether he could handle more- best not, probably, tempting though it may be. Instead, he sets the cup down.]

I don't know.

[The bluntness of the admission is a bit surprising even to himself.]

Part of me hates my ruthlessness, and another part of me thinks it's my only useful quality. You tell me which is better.

[dublinbrogue]

[ Doyle had reasons to be asking the questions. Less curiosity, and more trying to lead Wesley to the answers that were likely already within the man. A skill he had picked up in teaching, but had been much more useful with the downtrodden than it ever had been with third-graders.

His blue eyes studying the Englishman when he wasn't picking at the beer label.]

Nothin' wrong with not knowing, Wes. [ Doyle shrugged lightly then, but when Wesley tossed the ball back in his court, he had to think about it. Tapping the fingers of his right hand on the bottle as he pondered it. ]

My opinion? Honestly, I think it's a mighty fine trait t' have. We've all done things we can't write home to our mothers about, bud. I think it's important t'just not become that ruthlessness, use it as a skill, but keep yourself separate from it. If that makes a lick'o sense.