[His smile, briefly bitter, suggests he is somewhat aware of the persona he projects. Or projected, back home; it wouldn't serve, here, so he's adapted, but it hasn't been easy.]
My point is, I can't anticipate which Mitchell you're going to be at any given moment if you vacillate between treating everyone like they matter and narrowing it down to species loyalty. Since we're trapped on this hulk indefinitely, I think a sincere apology now will go down a lot better than the chance of discovery later. I don't need you burning my few bridges for me when you're the one who I'd expect to be impressed I'm bothering to build them. You know how easy it's not.
[He's been on blood more than a century longer. But he's also a mistrustful man, and that's not directly to do with the addiction. He was widely respected, but Ivan's circle was always relatively small.]
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[His smile, briefly bitter, suggests he is somewhat aware of the persona he projects. Or projected, back home; it wouldn't serve, here, so he's adapted, but it hasn't been easy.]
My point is, I can't anticipate which Mitchell you're going to be at any given moment if you vacillate between treating everyone like they matter and narrowing it down to species loyalty. Since we're trapped on this hulk indefinitely, I think a sincere apology now will go down a lot better than the chance of discovery later. I don't need you burning my few bridges for me when you're the one who I'd expect to be impressed I'm bothering to build them. You know how easy it's not.
[He's been on blood more than a century longer. But he's also a mistrustful man, and that's not directly to do with the addiction. He was widely respected, but Ivan's circle was always relatively small.]