Loth-kitten
Ну и до кучи.
“A change in strategy?” Hera raises her eyebrow at him.
“Hera everything is either a battle or a game for that kid. What's more he gets more unpredictable and off-kilter as the stakes he's playing for also get higher and riskier, which is why I think, that we’ve officially moved from him ignoring the elephant in the room to him actively trying to eliminate it via sudden death.”
Hera blinks. “Huh. I hadn’t really thought of it that way.”
“Yeah well, you weren’t *meant* to, now were you? That little speech of Ezra’s only really works if you automatically assign him the entire moral high ground in the wake of that little smackdown he gave you, instead of simply acknowledging that yes, in that one smaller line of discussion he had some points that deserved acknowledgement. Moral authority in one small portion of life does not equate to moral authority in all areas though, no matter how much automatically dipping your head to an opponent who’s smacked you silly in round one is a natural thing for most of us to do.”
“A change in strategy?” Hera raises her eyebrow at him.
“Hera everything is either a battle or a game for that kid. What's more he gets more unpredictable and off-kilter as the stakes he's playing for also get higher and riskier, which is why I think, that we’ve officially moved from him ignoring the elephant in the room to him actively trying to eliminate it via sudden death.”
Hera blinks. “Huh. I hadn’t really thought of it that way.”
“Yeah well, you weren’t *meant* to, now were you? That little speech of Ezra’s only really works if you automatically assign him the entire moral high ground in the wake of that little smackdown he gave you, instead of simply acknowledging that yes, in that one smaller line of discussion he had some points that deserved acknowledgement. Moral authority in one small portion of life does not equate to moral authority in all areas though, no matter how much automatically dipping your head to an opponent who’s smacked you silly in round one is a natural thing for most of us to do.”