Inbox (Etraya)

[cantilevers]

Text | Voice | Video | Action

Comments

text;

[zauneyete]

It's one thing to kill with a stroke of a pen, and another to be involved directly, Vander. You and I both know that. It's why they've been able to ignore us for so long. They eliminate our services, damn so many of us to starvation, or death, or rot and disease, but they never have to see it.

The blood is on their hands either way, the difference is whether they realize they've dipped their hands in it, or not.

[ DO NOT TELL HIM. ]

Jinx has what she needs. Remember that.

[ Final, of course. He won't actually get into it, because...well. He's heard it from him already, hasn't he? ]

No. We don't have anything more, do we? At least I know what your line in the sand is.

I suppose it's unsurprising that it's the same one it always was. I suppose I should praise you for sticking your neck out at least over Jinx.

[ After all, it had never been him, had it? Is that bitter? Don't worry about it. ]

text;

[cantilevers]

You don't have to remind me. I'm aware of the difference, since I once contributed one way more than the other in the undercity. So he mustered himself to dirty his hands for real, but that doesn't change policy, just puts a face to the inevitable anger that followed in the population. I'm sure you didn't exploit that.

Yet, I expect the reality of that situation tipped his hand some to that deal I heard the two of you attempted to foster. Maybe that's where we went wrong.

[They had done a lot right, but they had also done a lot wrong back in the day. He had no doubt that the upper echelons of Piltover were very aware of the suffering, but they had no incentive to make little more than minor improvements now and then. Maybe they should have jammed it more in their faces.]

Oh yes, I'm sure you've provided everything you think she needs, but I question whether or not it was actually what she needs in the long-run.

[Skeptical. Did he have the moral high ground when it came to raising kids? Probably not. Each of them had their different methods, and he had to force himself to be open that Silco did want Jinx to succeed within reason.]

I'd stick my neck out if it was you too. We deal with our problems internally.

[Yeah, Silco was a problem, but he was Vander's problem.]