semper_cogitans: (:/)
Robert Hastings ([personal profile] semper_cogitans) wrote in [personal profile] i_speak_softly 2012-08-15 02:31 am (UTC)

[Robert drops into seiza (without any associated pain or even much hesitation) next to Don on the floor, sitting across from him with a slightly uncertain expression.]

... If I ever return home, I... I will be deemed a menace to society... unless I lie about what I have learned here...

[And even if it runs at-odds to what Robert knows his world does, to what it understands - he doesn't see it as wrong, anymore. Just... just different.]

... I do not wish to... l-lie about you. Or... or about myself... about what this means...

I can protect people when I could not have before...

[In his own world it would have been unthinkable. Disgusting. The actions of a psychopath - any true Terran would gladly be martyred rather than do something so irrevocably barbaric.]

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