[ An easy answer to give. None of what McGillis is doing here and now is like him - even just answering Argenti honestly despite the danger inherent in doing so... He's betraying himself in a thousand ways, and he can only hope that it'll be worth it at the end of. ]
And that's exactly why I am doing it - I have spent the whole of my life keeping people at arm's length and relying on illusions and other people's false assumptions. In the end, that lead to my failure and death.
Having been given a second life, it would be unbecoming to repeat the same strategy unaltered, wouldn't it?
[ There is a small almost self-deprecating smile on his face - it's not quite a joke, but the use of the word strategy is at least tongue-in-cheek here. ]
In many ways, I am your opposite. Lifting my self-imposed isolation is to me as straying from your Path would be to you. Or it that 'would have been', now?
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[ An easy answer to give. None of what McGillis is doing here and now is like him - even just answering Argenti honestly despite the danger inherent in doing so... He's betraying himself in a thousand ways, and he can only hope that it'll be worth it at the end of. ]
And that's exactly why I am doing it - I have spent the whole of my life keeping people at arm's length and relying on illusions and other people's false assumptions. In the end, that lead to my failure and death.
Having been given a second life, it would be unbecoming to repeat the same strategy unaltered, wouldn't it?
[ There is a small almost self-deprecating smile on his face - it's not quite a joke, but the use of the word strategy is at least tongue-in-cheek here. ]
In many ways, I am your opposite. Lifting my self-imposed isolation is to me as straying from your Path would be to you. Or it that 'would have been', now?