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.
[ 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. ]
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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.
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And strength alone isn't enough to impress me, Koby, though there are days I wish it were that simple.
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What DOES impress you?
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And what of you?
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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.
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And do you see that, here?
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...definitely the latter.]
I see it everywhere. Here it's a bit harder to find the source, but I see the effects.
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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.
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I see.
Better the devil you know, I suppose.
Thank you, Koby.