[She's talking not to hear herself talk, but to understand something. He knows the difference. He's done it himself. He does it often enough in his head (or did, he's retired, he'll never go back) that he can spot when someone likes the sound of their own voice too much to be quiet and when someone uses it to connect the dots. That face on the tiny, inadequate screen doesn't change until she seems to, what, be commenting on his manners? His eyebrows lift, eyes go a little wider, and he looks.
Well.
He looks admonished and incredulous that he's just been admonished by a teenage girl. Better that than what he's dealt with the past few months (though if he could get her back, he'd happily let himself get chewed out repeatedly without ever once complaining).
"We're still human, aren't we?" — her, or people like her included, does that "we" apply to just her, people like her, or is she pulling Will into that we?
Huh.]
There's plenty of people here who aren't human, that's all. Why I asked. Different sorts I never would have imagined, stuck just like everyone else. Still think of them as people. Just...different from humans. Biologically. [Humans are damn different all on their own; why couldn't he extend "people" to everything (everyone) else? Shockingly human, some of the people who weren't human at all.] Humans don't have to be righteous or good to still be human. Or people. No one's perfect. Can't toss the imperfect aside without tossing everyone there, too. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, and so on.
[If his voice makes him sound a little dazed, it's because he is. Is he really having a conversation about people being unrighteous and not very good, being asked about it like...he's not a guy with terribly skewed morals who's left plenty of people in misery and dust for his own means?
u wanted to be a blurry lily pad?
Well.
He looks admonished and incredulous that he's just been admonished by a teenage girl. Better that than what he's dealt with the past few months (though if he could get her back, he'd happily let himself get chewed out repeatedly without ever once complaining).
"We're still human, aren't we?" — her, or people like her included, does that "we" apply to just her, people like her, or is she pulling Will into that we?
Huh.]
There's plenty of people here who aren't human, that's all. Why I asked. Different sorts I never would have imagined, stuck just like everyone else. Still think of them as people. Just...different from humans. Biologically. [Humans are damn different all on their own; why couldn't he extend "people" to everything (everyone) else? Shockingly human, some of the people who weren't human at all.] Humans don't have to be righteous or good to still be human. Or people. No one's perfect. Can't toss the imperfect aside without tossing everyone there, too. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, and so on.
[If his voice makes him sound a little dazed, it's because he is. Is he really having a conversation about people being unrighteous and not very good, being asked about it like...he's not a guy with terribly skewed morals who's left plenty of people in misery and dust for his own means?
He'll just go along with the flow.]