[Prior can tolerate a lot of crap when the underlying reason for it's stripped bare, red and raw and open. Tolerate it, not take it, and that first comment's just enough crap that he snaps back.]
Really? Well let me gather the pearls I just dropped in my shock, because I am the poster child for magical cures.
[Unlike some people, who can die and wake up right as rain in the morning - Prior didn't even get the cures everyone else got coming here. All magic's ever done for him is screw things harder. So fuck that little dig. And fuck John, for thinking that's the message implied in anything he's said.]
And if your alternative to something that doesn't work like magic for you is to store all this up and torture yourself after dark then knock yourself out. Everybody's got their kinks. But I hope you know that you're the one telling yourself this bullshit now. [A gesture to the man running his mouth off back there.] You. Not him. And personally, I'm starting to think I'd have to turn up naked in your bed at home before you felt guilty enough to dream about me.
[While Prior speaks, Kolya seems to have got stuck on a loop of that same line: That's what drives you, isn't it? Your past failures. Eventually Prior's heard so much of it he turns round to snap at the half corporeal figure.]
Oh, will you give it a break? I don't know what crawled up your ass, Major Burns, but everybody fails. We fail people and we are failed. Learning from mistakes might not be current military strategy but I'm willing to bet we still teach it in elementary school. Nobody can protect everyone from everything. Shit happens, and if it doesn't hit the fan in one direction it'll crap on you from another. People who know that and keep trying? They're who you want on your side.
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Really? Well let me gather the pearls I just dropped in my shock, because I am the poster child for magical cures.
[Unlike some people, who can die and wake up right as rain in the morning - Prior didn't even get the cures everyone else got coming here. All magic's ever done for him is screw things harder. So fuck that little dig. And fuck John, for thinking that's the message implied in anything he's said.]
And if your alternative to something that doesn't work like magic for you is to store all this up and torture yourself after dark then knock yourself out. Everybody's got their kinks. But I hope you know that you're the one telling yourself this bullshit now. [A gesture to the man running his mouth off back there.] You. Not him. And personally, I'm starting to think I'd have to turn up naked in your bed at home before you felt guilty enough to dream about me.
[While Prior speaks, Kolya seems to have got stuck on a loop of that same line: That's what drives you, isn't it? Your past failures. Eventually Prior's heard so much of it he turns round to snap at the half corporeal figure.]
Oh, will you give it a break? I don't know what crawled up your ass, Major Burns, but everybody fails. We fail people and we are failed. Learning from mistakes might not be current military strategy but I'm willing to bet we still teach it in elementary school. Nobody can protect everyone from everything. Shit happens, and if it doesn't hit the fan in one direction it'll crap on you from another. People who know that and keep trying? They're who you want on your side.