Something they didn't need until Void-Touched started arriving here. Here, they wouldn't be considered lesser for their choice in work. Easier targets. Maybe even deserving poor treatment and abuse.
But that seems to be a running consistent through our worlds. Whore just another word for garbage, something you ignore or avoid on the street, wait for someone else to come along and clean it up. Don't get too close, or the filth might infect you, too.
Your world doesn't dictate suffering. The people in it do.
Aegon mistreated someone in this house. You and Aemond both respond by offering me compensation and a promise he'll be punished, not because you care about the suffering caused, but because of reputation or potential future problems. You overlook suffering and you perpetuate it.
I offer education instead, and you balk. Because you don't want to get too close, and have the filth infect you, too.
[ she's tried. she's tried so hard to tell him to behave like a crown prince should. she's done everything she could, but she can't admit her failure to anyone, not even to herself. ]
He is my son, Kovacs. I know he can do better. It will not happen again.
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You protect them.
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But that seems to be a running consistent through our worlds. Whore just another word for garbage, something you ignore or avoid on the street, wait for someone else to come along and clean it up. Don't get too close, or the filth might infect you, too.
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That is why we have the City Watch, to keep them safe, but sadly their rule only reaches so far.
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Aegon mistreated someone in this house. You and Aemond both respond by offering me compensation and a promise he'll be punished, not because you care about the suffering caused, but because of reputation or potential future problems. You overlook suffering and you perpetuate it.
I offer education instead, and you balk. Because you don't want to get too close, and have the filth infect you, too.
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[ not intentionally, anyway. ]
They're people who have had misfortune in their lives.
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If they have nothing else?
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Forgive me, I do not understand. Why?
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You believe that I am the reason for Aegon's behavior?
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[ she's tried. she's tried so hard to tell him to behave like a crown prince should. she's done everything she could, but she can't admit her failure to anyone, not even to herself. ]
He is my son, Kovacs. I know he can do better. It will not happen again.
[ she has to believe that. ]
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And you can?
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