[ He says that easily, quickly, without hesitation. It's...not as easy as that, he knows; he knows he'd recoil from it. Or he wants to think he'd recoil from it. Maybe the sight and scent of blood would make him revert to type, would awake a viciousness in him...But no; no. He'd sat in on the torture of Duv Galeni and had just felt sick. There isn't some magical on-switch for him.
So yes; he'd flinch. But he's ImpSec-trained. They don't recruit people who can't do what's needed. And, what, he's going to be more squeamish than Miles? Miles the Noble and Good? If the dwarf can kill people, he can kill people. ]
I just haven't been in circumstances where I've had to. Could you kill a man if you just wanted to?
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[ He says that easily, quickly, without hesitation. It's...not as easy as that, he knows; he knows he'd recoil from it. Or he wants to think he'd recoil from it. Maybe the sight and scent of blood would make him revert to type, would awake a viciousness in him...But no; no. He'd sat in on the torture of Duv Galeni and had just felt sick. There isn't some magical on-switch for him.
So yes; he'd flinch. But he's ImpSec-trained. They don't recruit people who can't do what's needed. And, what, he's going to be more squeamish than Miles? Miles the Noble and Good? If the dwarf can kill people, he can kill people. ]
I just haven't been in circumstances where I've had to. Could you kill a man if you just wanted to?