You do not understand. Perhaps that is to be expected. The shackles were to your benefit, ensuring I behaved as you wished me to. Letting you believe you had somehow changed me. As I believed I had changed you. Perhaps we were both wrong.
[ Words like these, like the ones Hannibal had spoken before he'd gone into the morgue, were like drops of lemon juice into open wounds. They stung and made Will squirm with a confusing moras of emotion.
He struggled to keep his mind walking in a straight line, rather than straying from the path. ]
No. You had developed and custom fit your person suit years before you met me. It has served you for years before me, and it served you even after me.
In fact, it doesn't benefit me, Hannibal. If anything your well developed person suit aided in my transformation; from my destruction to my rebirth.
Do not fool yourself into think you're setting it aside of your own design, Hannibal. Look in a mirror, you are Norfinbury's design.
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Date: 2018-03-30 05:47 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2018-03-30 03:16 pm (UTC)From:[He's free, Will. Why did he ever wear that suit? Why not take what he wants, when he wants it?
he's not himself will]no subject
Date: 2018-03-30 06:07 pm (UTC)From:I don't think you're going to want to be rid of it so quickly now.
[ Being free means being impulsive, which is never a good look on you Hannibal. ]
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Date: 2018-03-30 07:34 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2018-03-30 09:05 pm (UTC)From:Listen to yourself Hannibal. You are speaking words that belong to the capricious nature of this town, not your own words.
[ Speaking. Typing. Same difference. ]
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Date: 2018-03-30 09:22 pm (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2018-03-30 09:29 pm (UTC)From:He struggled to keep his mind walking in a straight line, rather than straying from the path. ]
No. You had developed and custom fit your person suit years before you met me. It has served you for years before me, and it served you even after me.
In fact, it doesn't benefit me, Hannibal. If anything your well developed person suit aided in my transformation; from my destruction to my rebirth.
Do not fool yourself into think you're setting it aside of your own design, Hannibal. Look in a mirror, you are Norfinbury's design.
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Date: 2018-03-30 09:34 pm (UTC)From:[Forgive him, Will, he's not himself.]