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“I didn’t mean to, he told himself. It sounded pathetic. It had been a stranger, one of Cousin Boulo’s crew, who’d gone to give two men something to eat, who’d died because he was in the way. Some reason.”

“It was as though Furio had been tied down, and had suddenly been set free. He stood up. ‘Sorry,’ he said, ‘but you can’t do it. I wont let you. That’s all there is to it.’

Gignomai looked at him. There was love in his eyes, and a kind of gratitude. ‘Why?”

‘For your sake,’ Furio said. ‘Not theirs.’

‘Ah.’ Gignomai smiled. ‘I always did like you, Furio.’”

“If Gig’s right, to understand evil is to become capable of it. On those terms, I’d rather be really, really stupid.”

the cousin stuff is kind of weirding me out ngl