Right. [A sigh] I mean, this is the kind of thing we take classes on, back at camp. And I think, with enough time I'd get the hang of it?
[Maybe.]
Or eventually find it in me like Percy and Jason did. Maybe it's hidden away somewhere. ...Very, very hidden? But I can't just sit around and wait for everyone to trust me when defeating a world-eating monster or something depends on it.
And suppose I told you I didn't think you were suited to the task. Perhaps called you a few names in the meanwhile. You could be a coward, mate.
[Kidd doesn't think that's true, strictly speaking. Frank has probably thought of himself as being so in the past, but the reality of the thing is that Kidd damned well knows he'd act if he had to. When necessary. Honestly, it's the mark of a good Assassin.]
I'm many things but not that, I will never be called that. I live risking my life, every hour of every day. I breathe risk. I fight monsters for a living. I let the stick of wood linked to my life burn away in front of my eyes to free death itself.
I am the son of the mother and the son of my father both and neither of them had a coward for a son. You can decide not to train me for a lot of reasons but not that one.
I said you could be. For all I know. Not that you are. But that's a start, true enough. You find that fire for the rest of all your lessons, and perhaps we'll make something out of you yet, you and I.
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audio;
Date: 2014-02-19 06:50 pm (UTC)[Maybe.]
Or eventually find it in me like Percy and Jason did. Maybe it's hidden away somewhere. ...Very, very hidden? But I can't just sit around and wait for everyone to trust me when defeating a world-eating monster or something depends on it.
audio;
Date: 2014-02-21 02:05 pm (UTC)audio;
Date: 2014-02-24 05:11 pm (UTC)I'd prove to you I could learn. I would insist, I guess- I would ask you why you wouldn't?
audio;
Date: 2014-02-25 01:59 pm (UTC)[Kidd doesn't think that's true, strictly speaking. Frank has probably thought of himself as being so in the past, but the reality of the thing is that Kidd damned well knows he'd act if he had to. When necessary. Honestly, it's the mark of a good Assassin.]
audio;
Date: 2014-02-27 07:46 pm (UTC)I'm many things but not that, I will never be called that. I live risking my life, every hour of every day. I breathe risk. I fight monsters for a living. I let the stick of wood linked to my life burn away in front of my eyes to free death itself.
I am the son of the mother and the son of my father both and neither of them had a coward for a son. You can decide not to train me for a lot of reasons but not that one.
audio;
Date: 2014-02-28 10:39 pm (UTC)I said you could be. For all I know. Not that you are. But that's a start, true enough. You find that fire for the rest of all your lessons, and perhaps we'll make something out of you yet, you and I.
audio;
Date: 2014-03-02 04:03 pm (UTC)I'll do my best, I really will.
audio;
Date: 2014-03-06 07:07 pm (UTC)Re: audio;
Date: 2014-03-07 11:33 pm (UTC)See you, then. [A pause.] ...Or not.