Grant power to those who have never had it, and the weakest of character among them will use it to play at being strong in the way a child pulling wings from insects pretends he's a giant. That she did that when she is no stranger to power beyond the ordinary physical sort is...
[Well, there's the reason she's no longer getting called "Emma".
The first sentence he said had the slightly singsong rhythm of a lesson taught until it became a belief. It isn't that he's seen this before, but he was warned of it, and he fell prey to the same sort of lazily cruel superiority complex, once. The memory does bring a mortified blush to his face, tinting a self-recriminating bitter scowl.]
At the very least I sought out monsters to fight, and "bad men"... I was very simple in my morals, at fifteen. But I only fought John the once, and he showed me what a fool I'd been to think I could prove myself better than everyone by showing off and picking fights.
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[Well, there's the reason she's no longer getting called "Emma".
The first sentence he said had the slightly singsong rhythm of a lesson taught until it became a belief. It isn't that he's seen this before, but he was warned of it, and he fell prey to the same sort of lazily cruel superiority complex, once. The memory does bring a mortified blush to his face, tinting a self-recriminating bitter scowl.]
At the very least I sought out monsters to fight, and "bad men"... I was very simple in my morals, at fifteen. But I only fought John the once, and he showed me what a fool I'd been to think I could prove myself better than everyone by showing off and picking fights.