"Yes, but he is the one and only success so far," he reasoned to her
gently. "And even if it works, not everyone is going to believe it
immediately. The cure might work right away, but people don't change so
easily." It was a sad, hard reality, but there would be many more deaths
like this before the majority came to believe that such a possession was
not a death sentence.
He moved his hand to gently pet her curls, a big brother comforting in his
little sister, groping for the right words to say to her to make sense of
this mad mess. How do you explain that in that moment, Kirk agreed with the
choice? He didn't like it. He hated it and it made his stomach turn, but
they were out of options.
"Because Anders knows best what that boy was growing through," he said
softly. "He ran the risks of being taken over every day, and if anyone was
fit to judge when there was no other option left it's him." He took a
breath, searching for the right words. "I wish we could have saved that
boy. I wish that he has not been approached with immediate suspicion and
violence when it became clear what he was. But that's not what happened. I
think in the heat of an attack, knowing that if he escaped us many more
would pay a price for it, we made the only call that we could because it
was growing stronger, shaking off the magic and the other wounds. It
doesn't make it the right or the just call, but it was the only call we
could make in that moment. I will live with that. Anders will live with
that. All of us will. And hopefully one day no will have to again."
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"Yes, but he is the one and only success so far," he reasoned to her gently. "And even if it works, not everyone is going to believe it immediately. The cure might work right away, but people don't change so easily." It was a sad, hard reality, but there would be many more deaths like this before the majority came to believe that such a possession was not a death sentence.
He moved his hand to gently pet her curls, a big brother comforting in his little sister, groping for the right words to say to her to make sense of this mad mess. How do you explain that in that moment, Kirk agreed with the choice? He didn't like it. He hated it and it made his stomach turn, but they were out of options.
"Because Anders knows best what that boy was growing through," he said softly. "He ran the risks of being taken over every day, and if anyone was fit to judge when there was no other option left it's him." He took a breath, searching for the right words. "I wish we could have saved that boy. I wish that he has not been approached with immediate suspicion and violence when it became clear what he was. But that's not what happened. I think in the heat of an attack, knowing that if he escaped us many more would pay a price for it, we made the only call that we could because it was growing stronger, shaking off the magic and the other wounds. It doesn't make it the right or the just call, but it was the only call we could make in that moment. I will live with that. Anders will live with that. All of us will. And hopefully one day no will have to again."