Don't you see it? They were never afraid enough? Always just enough to keep us quiet, and meek. Just enough to keep us poor, and struggling. Yes, of course they feared us, but not enough to stay their hands. To keep them from finally giving us the respect we always deserved.
[ A part of him thinks that he should just come around, see it. Maybe it doesn't matter anymore β the thought lights in his mind, before he quickly dashes it, pushes it out. It still matters. He still β He focuses on the response instead. Refuses to think about it. Refuses to let his mind go down that path. ]
Oh, the small thriving community. The Lanes? While everything else rotted around you? Do you think the Lanes were going to be it, for me? You wanted them to be a harmonious little community, but what about the rest of it? The rest of us? It didn't matter to you, did it? Just the community of people who saw things your way.
Zaun was never going to be thriving under your watch, Vander. You were content to continue to live on runoff. Their runoff.
So yes, perhaps I would have liked to see them suffer, recognize how dependent they were on us. On our labor. On everything that we supplied them with to make them wealthy. Perhaps I did want to see them finally understand what it was that they did every day they woke up, and stepped over our backs on their way to yet another party, yet another meal where they threw half away.
The fact that you don't see that, the fac that you don't want that disgusts me.
They should be suffering for what they did. Then again, for someone who worked with them, why am I hardly surprised? You would have thrown away any of us to make sure that you kept the peace.
[ He used this against Caitlyn. He's using it now. ]
Honestly? I'm surprised you didn't let Vi hang for her "crimes". That would have been your usual method, wouldn't it?
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[ A part of him thinks that he should just come around, see it. Maybe it doesn't matter anymore β the thought lights in his mind, before he quickly dashes it, pushes it out. It still matters. He still β He focuses on the response instead. Refuses to think about it. Refuses to let his mind go down that path. ]
Oh, the small thriving community. The Lanes? While everything else rotted around you? Do you think the Lanes were going to be it, for me? You wanted them to be a harmonious little community, but what about the rest of it? The rest of us? It didn't matter to you, did it? Just the community of people who saw things your way.
Zaun was never going to be thriving under your watch, Vander. You were content to continue to live on runoff. Their runoff.
So yes, perhaps I would have liked to see them suffer, recognize how dependent they were on us. On our labor. On everything that we supplied them with to make them wealthy. Perhaps I did want to see them finally understand what it was that they did every day they woke up, and stepped over our backs on their way to yet another party, yet another meal where they threw half away.
The fact that you don't see that, the fac that you don't want that disgusts me.
They should be suffering for what they did. Then again, for someone who worked with them, why am I hardly surprised? You would have thrown away any of us to make sure that you kept the peace.
[ He used this against Caitlyn. He's using it now. ]
Honestly? I'm surprised you didn't let Vi hang for her "crimes". That would have been your usual method, wouldn't it?