FROM: gliese@cdc.org
To find humor about you?
You are not a terrible man, Adrien.
If you would trust me to be the hand that wield you, I would not hesitate to break you. This is a promise.
Other options:
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That makes you one of the few.
[ Which is part of why she has earned his fierce loyalty. ]
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FROM: gliese@cdc.org
To find humor about you?
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Yes.
[ There is a pause before he adds. ]
FROM: md.arbuckal.adrien@cdc.org
I should clarify. Amette used to laugh; often at my expense and rightly so.
I didn't mind so much.
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FROM: gliese@cdc.org
You are not a terrible man, Adrien.
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FROM: md.arbuckal.adrien@cdc.org
I'm not a man, Gliese. I'm a weapon.
FROM: md.arbuckal.adrien@cdc.org
Sword and shield. My purpose is to ensure the survival of those who are my family; you, the officers and this crew, at all cost.
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FROM: gliese@cdc.org
If you would trust me to be the hand that wield you, I would not hesitate to break you. This is a promise.
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And often have to be taken on faith; for good or for ill. ]
FROM: md.arbuckal.adrien@cdc.org
I trust you.
[ It's as he told Alina. ]