I'm not talking about a determination of culpability.
[A hand curls at his chest in a grasping, futile gesture, one that he makes whenever talking about feelings, a gesture that means, 'it's totally illogical to treat emotions like they're centered in the chest and not the result of the biochemical cascades in the brain but here I am being sentimental about it anyway.']
I'm saying that intent matters. Even the law relegates it as being absolutely imperative and the law not doing so in your case was a miscarriage of justice.
[He presses the hand against his chest, over his heart.]
Who they all thought you were, the hate and selfishness and egotism they attributed to you...that was not who you are then and it isn't who you are now. If it was who you were then, it wouldn't have caused you that much pain, and if it wasn't who you are now, you wouldn't have tried so hard to help me. You wouldn't be the Legionnaire you are.
Maybe you already know that, maybe you've managed to internalize that again, I don't know. But after so many said otherwise and saw otherwise in you, I want to say the opposite, that I see the opposite, just once. You deserve to hear it from me, especially after you tried so hard to make sure that I understood the same thing about myself.
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[A hand curls at his chest in a grasping, futile gesture, one that he makes whenever talking about feelings, a gesture that means, 'it's totally illogical to treat emotions like they're centered in the chest and not the result of the biochemical cascades in the brain but here I am being sentimental about it anyway.']
I'm saying that intent matters. Even the law relegates it as being absolutely imperative and the law not doing so in your case was a miscarriage of justice.
[He presses the hand against his chest, over his heart.]
Who they all thought you were, the hate and selfishness and egotism they attributed to you...that was not who you are then and it isn't who you are now. If it was who you were then, it wouldn't have caused you that much pain, and if it wasn't who you are now, you wouldn't have tried so hard to help me. You wouldn't be the Legionnaire you are.
Maybe you already know that, maybe you've managed to internalize that again, I don't know. But after so many said otherwise and saw otherwise in you, I want to say the opposite, that I see the opposite, just once. You deserve to hear it from me, especially after you tried so hard to make sure that I understood the same thing about myself.