[He sounds insulted at the crassness of it, but his lip twitches, too. Then a smirk comes out to play, all fang, and he is watching Dean from across the room with something that could be mistaken in a dim light for admiration. Yes, Dean has paid attention. That is one of the most important qualities about him: his attention to detail, and that cleverness that masquerades as something much more like stupidity.]
It might not be totally useless, [he admits as though it's been dragged out of him.] I suppose.
[It will be invaluable. No one will know what to make of him. It will be marvelous, and he will laugh and laugh when he has the privacy to and the luxury of laughter. Things will be different, but he has come around to the belief that they will be easier this way.]
[And even if they're not, he doesn't think he wants to go back to the old way. Not entirely, anyway. What use is immortality if you're not adaptable, is what he thinks - what good is a life like his if he can't recognize the use of change?]
[That other thing, too. An object lesson. If a man like him can change, so can the city.]
[ Spam ]
[He sounds insulted at the crassness of it, but his lip twitches, too. Then a smirk comes out to play, all fang, and he is watching Dean from across the room with something that could be mistaken in a dim light for admiration. Yes, Dean has paid attention. That is one of the most important qualities about him: his attention to detail, and that cleverness that masquerades as something much more like stupidity.]
It might not be totally useless, [he admits as though it's been dragged out of him.] I suppose.
[It will be invaluable. No one will know what to make of him. It will be marvelous, and he will laugh and laugh when he has the privacy to and the luxury of laughter. Things will be different, but he has come around to the belief that they will be easier this way.]
[And even if they're not, he doesn't think he wants to go back to the old way. Not entirely, anyway. What use is immortality if you're not adaptable, is what he thinks - what good is a life like his if he can't recognize the use of change?]
[That other thing, too. An object lesson. If a man like him can change, so can the city.]