The Eagle and The Cobra

[Reeves]

Saving Liberty? If he had no self restraint he might have burst out laughing. There was no chivalry involved in the service of ones agendas, whether those be vested in oneself or a nation. Impressively naive idealism if nothing else, a wonder she wasn't dead or worse, then again perhaps this was the worst conclusion because at least in his eyes she was living a lie and trying to sell it to him. "Predictability gets you killed. It's not only my nature to be unpredictable but also in my immediate interest. There's no point discussing what I want, least of all for Liberty. People want many things, often without a willingness to work for it." What did he even want? Come to think of it he just enjoyed all the killing. The challenge made the thrill of every kill more satisfying and there was no movement more downtrodden than this one. It was the purest violent outlet he could give himself.

Shutting off the table's display and taking note of her imminent departure, he decided to clarify the exact nature of his stance on this proposition. "I'll help you kill people you can't. Guilty or not, doesn't matter to me. But nobody that becomes one of us is acting in the interests of your Government, the one that would sooner sell you to me if the margin was compelling enough. We act according to the ideals that made this House great to begin with, despite them being a convenient omission in the present. Liberty or death is a literal expression. But our views on what that Liberty should look like most assuredly do not coincide." It seemed to take a fraction of a second for his current demeanor and tone to revert back to the playfulness of before, it wasn't less fake or truly compelling, instead it was just the hallmark of a sociopath, or maybe worse.

"I'll walk you out, otherwise people will doubt the act." It was important to keep up appearances after all, both of them knew this so well but with vastly different applications of the concept.

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