[ His was a small apology, but it was likely the best he could give, for now. Anathema's fingers are curled at the high neck of her dress; if she had a necklace there, she'd be clutching it, but instead she just settles for the line of her own collarbone. Thinking.
And despite himself, Gabriel managed to land on saying exactly the right thing, for her at least. ]
They really have made a massive mess of things. The oceans, the rainforest, the heaps of floating trash, the extinctions, the dead coral reefs, the ozone layer, the pipelines, the constant fires. You gave us this planet, and we fucked it all up. I'm— god, you don't know how much that sort of thing infuriated me. The Devices, we were always about the very, very, very long game, we thought of things in centuries, and yet so many other people don't seem to be able to have that perspective. They're too short-sighted.
But you're right. In that you need to give people the chance to try, at least. To clean up their own messes. If you just scrap the whole experiment and start from scratch, how does anyone learn anything? How does anyone get better?
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[ His was a small apology, but it was likely the best he could give, for now. Anathema's fingers are curled at the high neck of her dress; if she had a necklace there, she'd be clutching it, but instead she just settles for the line of her own collarbone. Thinking.
And despite himself, Gabriel managed to land on saying exactly the right thing, for her at least. ]
They really have made a massive mess of things. The oceans, the rainforest, the heaps of floating trash, the extinctions, the dead coral reefs, the ozone layer, the pipelines, the constant fires. You gave us this planet, and we fucked it all up. I'm— god, you don't know how much that sort of thing infuriated me. The Devices, we were always about the very, very, very long game, we thought of things in centuries, and yet so many other people don't seem to be able to have that perspective. They're too short-sighted.
But you're right. In that you need to give people the chance to try, at least. To clean up their own messes. If you just scrap the whole experiment and start from scratch, how does anyone learn anything? How does anyone get better?