Continuing with vast understatements, to say that Erik is surprised would be one of those. He understands that Ned distances himself from his ability (or tries too, for as impossible as that is) but that he would be so sure that even Erik would look on this display and experience nothing but revulsion--
Well. At least his confusion is too genuine to be anything else, although after a second it skews charred with the blackening of experience. "'Disgusting.' No."
If there's one thing a person can always count on from Erik, it's honesty and concision in tandem. "I've been witness to every kind of atrocity mankind has invented." His smile is sharp again, eyes glittering like a spill of broken glass. "And they are endlessly inventive even in their banality. I know disgusting when I see it."
He might have had to make his voice soften to go on, but he's managed it, so at least his words don't have the quality of a thresher on high after that point. "What you do--what you are--it isn't that. Far from it. All your life you've been taught you have no choice but to hide, when that's the last thing you should have to do. You wield a power that would destroy a lesser man, and you have more strength in you than you know. More than I think you could ever have imagined."
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Well. At least his confusion is too genuine to be anything else, although after a second it skews charred with the blackening of experience. "'Disgusting.' No."
If there's one thing a person can always count on from Erik, it's honesty and concision in tandem. "I've been witness to every kind of atrocity mankind has invented." His smile is sharp again, eyes glittering like a spill of broken glass. "And they are endlessly inventive even in their banality. I know disgusting when I see it."
He might have had to make his voice soften to go on, but he's managed it, so at least his words don't have the quality of a thresher on high after that point. "What you do--what you are--it isn't that. Far from it. All your life you've been taught you have no choice but to hide, when that's the last thing you should have to do. You wield a power that would destroy a lesser man, and you have more strength in you than you know. More than I think you could ever have imagined."