[He had reason to fear Will Graham's actions, certainly, but not for the surface-level implications, not from the point in time when Will knew him. It felt like simultaneously a half a year ago or just a couples of weeks prior was the era when Chilton would have leapt away from any therapy containment center that held the man he spoke to. Bars were only so thin, after all.
But now? He didn't fear the assumption of Will as some reaper, no. He feared the more informative scythe the man could use against him: the truth of what he had done to Abel Gideon.
Even here, his unethical practice haunted Chilton. Even a universe away.]
I doubt your encephalitis will taunt you much longer. Who could you possibly hurt?
[It was a purposeful exoneration. Without committing to it in so many words, Chilton dodged considering Will Graham the Chesapeake Ripper any longer.]
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[He had reason to fear Will Graham's actions, certainly, but not for the surface-level implications, not from the point in time when Will knew him. It felt like simultaneously a half a year ago or just a couples of weeks prior was the era when Chilton would have leapt away from any therapy containment center that held the man he spoke to. Bars were only so thin, after all.
But now? He didn't fear the assumption of Will as some reaper, no. He feared the more informative scythe the man could use against him: the truth of what he had done to Abel Gideon.
Even here, his unethical practice haunted Chilton. Even a universe away.]
I doubt your encephalitis will taunt you much longer. Who could you possibly hurt?
[It was a purposeful exoneration. Without committing to it in so many words, Chilton dodged considering Will Graham the Chesapeake Ripper any longer.]