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[kobes]

I haven't spent enough time around them to be sure. And I don't like poking around in people's minds without permission.

That's a very kind allowance, Mr. Silco, especially having seen me. I know I'm not impressive, it's okay.
But yes, sand. Sandstorms, too.

[powerhungry]

Naturally.
And strength alone isn't enough to impress me, Koby, though there are days I wish it were that simple.

[kobes]

I think it's admirable that it's not that simple. It means you're discerning.

What DOES impress you?

[powerhungry]

Conviction. Strength, cleverness — they're all tools, and no tool can accomplish anything without a clear force to drive it.
And what of you?

[kobes]

Conviction, too, I suppose. Confidence. Decisiveness.
A purpose. Even if someone does something I don't agree with [piracy, anarchy, some light war crimes] I can't help but respect someone who does it wholeheartedly. For a reason.

It's senseless cruelty I can't respect.

[powerhungry]

[ He wonders — in an idle, purposeless kind of way — what Koby would make of the way he'd exerted control over Zaun. Hardly senseless, he'd have said, but still not the kind of thing that gained him many friends, and certainly no admirers in Piltover. ]

And do you see that, here?

[kobes]

[its hard to say -- would koby hold a hard line and condemn silco's acts, or make excuses, clouded by his emotions? probably the latter.

...definitely the latter.]

I see it everywhere. Here it's a bit harder to find the source, but I see the effects.

[powerhungry]

The parties, you mean. The ones that go wrong.

[kobes]

Sometimes. Sometimes it's just
Day to day things. I can feel it, spreading through the house like
I don't know.

Blood in the water, maybe. It's in all of us, by now. The parties are just a symptom of whatever's in control, I think.

[powerhungry]

[ Well, he doesn't love to hear that. ]

I see.
Better the devil you know, I suppose.

Thank you, Koby.