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[ornithologist]

I don't think I've ever had an easy time with it -- either the choice itself or with accepting that I need to choose.

[ His particular character flaw has always been trying to hide from hard things. ]

[levelshift]

Then how do you decide?

[ornithologist]

[ He's struck, suddenly, with the memory of trying to convince the Machine that they weren't monsters, what he'd said then. ]

I don't wish to give the impression that I have it all figured out, that I succeed or make the right choices every time.

There is good and bad in everyone. But we do the best we can.

[levelshift]

Hmm.

[That's reasonable. Maybe it was naive for him to ask that question. Harold is just a person, of course he's going to make the wrong choice sometimes.]

Then you won't get pissed off when I make the wrong choice?

[It seems like an inevitability, and he doubts Harold would based on the things he's told him in the past... but he still wants to ask, anyways.]

[ornithologist]

Will you when I do?

[levelshift]

Yeah, I would.

[Which is saying something, since he doesn't particularly like extending that much patience to adults these days.]

[ornithologist]

Then I don't see why I wouldn't return the favor.

[levelshift]

I guess that's a good point.

Um, thanks.

[ornithologist]

You're quite welcome.