( that one. godric looks down at his hand, scorched by the dawn but already healing. )
What use do you expect me to have of you?
( humans have their own ideas about vampires. godric may take some form of action in this city, to an end of his choosing, but he is very old, and very tired of leadership in that way. doing something because one is good at it is not the same as doing it because it sings in your blood. ephemera is quick, brutal, violent, good at his job, he says, which seems to have been soldiering in one form or another. the job, undoubtedly, is killing. fighting. intimidation. perhaps some small skill with subterfuge or spycraft but there is nothing he offers that godric cannot himself do better and more efficiently.
yet he craves so desperately to be useful to someone possessed of power. it says much of the psyche he is so staunch in defending. )
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Date: 2020-01-18 12:50 am (UTC)What use do you expect me to have of you?
( humans have their own ideas about vampires. godric may take some form of action in this city, to an end of his choosing, but he is very old, and very tired of leadership in that way. doing something because one is good at it is not the same as doing it because it sings in your blood. ephemera is quick, brutal, violent, good at his job, he says, which seems to have been soldiering in one form or another. the job, undoubtedly, is killing. fighting. intimidation. perhaps some small skill with subterfuge or spycraft but there is nothing he offers that godric cannot himself do better and more efficiently.
yet he craves so desperately to be useful to someone possessed of power. it says much of the psyche he is so staunch in defending. )