And yet here you are not snapping my head off, literally or figuratively, and I definitely never learned not to annoy my superiors.
[He shakes his head, begins pacing around as if there's anything to see in here that hasn't already made it back into the seachest. His hands stay in the pockets of his leather jacket.]
This place isn't supposed to change you that much. It never just goes away. I don't...
What happens here doesn't pave over the damn road. It just adjusts the curve a little bit, and you have to keep doing the rest yourself. [He doesn't look while he's talking; easier not to be so obvious when his eyebrows pull together more, when the corner of his mouth pulls down for a moment. He's thinking of the inmates he's seen graduate, of Kon, of Cain, of the Marquis, of Anya. Of Felix. They were never really different, after, at least not like Jones seems to think they should've been.
Just more of one aspect of themselves than the one they'd come on board as.] I guess it's still up to you if you want to keep whatever did change, or just go back to what you were doing before the second you're out the door.
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Date: 2014-03-24 01:59 am (UTC)[He shakes his head, begins pacing around as if there's anything to see in here that hasn't already made it back into the seachest. His hands stay in the pockets of his leather jacket.]
This place isn't supposed to change you that much. It never just goes away. I don't...
What happens here doesn't pave over the damn road. It just adjusts the curve a little bit, and you have to keep doing the rest yourself. [He doesn't look while he's talking; easier not to be so obvious when his eyebrows pull together more, when the corner of his mouth pulls down for a moment. He's thinking of the inmates he's seen graduate, of Kon, of Cain, of the Marquis, of Anya. Of Felix. They were never really different, after, at least not like Jones seems to think they should've been.
Just more of one aspect of themselves than the one they'd come on board as.] I guess it's still up to you if you want to keep whatever did change, or just go back to what you were doing before the second you're out the door.