๏ผ she has a good heart. a willingness to help others, to serve. she would have been a fearsome shinobi, if given power enough to stand in defense of her ideals. she does it anyway — even limited as she is by human frailty. she is quick and brave and clever, and he has not once doubted that she would die for a stranger.
his opinion on civilians has always been that they are a thing to be protected, and apart from. yet, clara is a rarified sort — he does not expect to have missed out on others like her, with his avoidance — but he does wonder what else he has been blind to.
he looked at his life like a road that lead him to its inevitable end. he was satisfied with how death came to him — an act engineered to the smallest detail, and asked of sasuke. it is only now, five months out, that he has turned his mind to other possible paths. things he once saw as inevitable, or necessary, or correct... he has begun to question. anything but absolute obedience is dangerous, in a shinobi. yet he has been dangerous for other reasons for a long, long time. ๏ผ
Of this I have no doubt. ๏ผ he pauses faintly. then: ๏ผ I have business to attend elsewhere, Clara-san — we will speak later.
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his opinion on civilians has always been that they are a thing to be protected, and apart from. yet, clara is a rarified sort — he does not expect to have missed out on others like her, with his avoidance — but he does wonder what else he has been blind to.
he looked at his life like a road that lead him to its inevitable end. he was satisfied with how death came to him — an act engineered to the smallest detail, and asked of sasuke. it is only now, five months out, that he has turned his mind to other possible paths. things he once saw as inevitable, or necessary, or correct... he has begun to question. anything but absolute obedience is dangerous, in a shinobi. yet he has been dangerous for other reasons for a long, long time. ๏ผ
Of this I have no doubt. ๏ผ he pauses faintly. then: ๏ผ I have business to attend elsewhere, Clara-san — we will speak later.