[Liem lets out a sigh as John takes his seat and offers his own commentary on the situation with Gen — because of course he has commentary. Their mutual dislike hadn’t exactly been subtle, when Liem had observed them at the ambassador meeting.
Fortunately for John, Liem is probably among the least vindictive people he could ever wrong. He has no qualms whatsoever about drinking with the man just because of some unfortunate business that stopped being relevant months ago.]
No, I don’t think he’ll learn anything from this. I don’t think… he cares about the risk of consequences, when it comes to deeply personal matters.
[He’s sure Gen isn’t glad to be in jail because of this, but if anything, he suspects the young man blames Liem for his predicament, rather than himself. And even if that weren’t the case, he doubts even full knowledge of the consequences he’d end up suffering would have been enough to deflect his rage from finding the target it wanted.
Looking at John sidelong, he considers the other man, considers how he’s never seen John look ashamed of anything at all, and he thinks that this is not a problem he ever would have had.]
You know, I found him so I could apologize to him, for something I did when I was out-of-sorts towards the end of the Oracle trial. I get the impression he’s used to having bad relationships with older people. But… well. You can guess how it went over.
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Fortunately for John, Liem is probably among the least vindictive people he could ever wrong. He has no qualms whatsoever about drinking with the man just because of some unfortunate business that stopped being relevant months ago.]
No, I don’t think he’ll learn anything from this. I don’t think… he cares about the risk of consequences, when it comes to deeply personal matters.
[He’s sure Gen isn’t glad to be in jail because of this, but if anything, he suspects the young man blames Liem for his predicament, rather than himself. And even if that weren’t the case, he doubts even full knowledge of the consequences he’d end up suffering would have been enough to deflect his rage from finding the target it wanted.
Looking at John sidelong, he considers the other man, considers how he’s never seen John look ashamed of anything at all, and he thinks that this is not a problem he ever would have had.]
You know, I found him so I could apologize to him, for something I did when I was out-of-sorts towards the end of the Oracle trial. I get the impression he’s used to having bad relationships with older people. But… well. You can guess how it went over.