Wrapping Up

[Reeves]

Somewhat unexpectedly, he would reach out and hold Olivia by the shoulder for a moment, a silent guarantee that he would not make the comment she saw as the most predictable from him in the moment. "He's just very naive to think we do all this without cause, such as the weight of pain and trauma. There's a certain anger you're left with when everything else you had's been taken away from you. All the more so when you live under a Government that's likely to imprison you, not for crimes committed, but for who you are." There was something insightful about the way he put it, like he had personal experience in the matter despite his carefully crafted facade, or perhaps he'd just been a close observer to the trends that Liberty shamelessly perpetrated. A sliver of truth existed, something had to push people to this level of retaliation, and it was maybe enough to cause one to shudder if juxtaposed by just how harshly the Xenos felt they needed to retaliate.

"You'll find this strange, but I prefer this place the way it is now. The fact it's emptier makes it feel more full, I get to notice details that a crowd would otherwise obscure. Something about that's charming." They were close to the bar now, the door just up ahead of them. Passing through that threshold revealed that the watering hole was only lightly populated. People sporting the same colors as Morreti gave him a respectful nod from their seats, others seemed disgusted by his entry.

But nobody was ambivalent.

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