[Blake's eyes fall down to his hands. He rubs his thumb on a sore knuckle.]
I've done some bad shit, kid. Sometimes in a split second. Sometimes...real planned out.
It was always what somebody had to do. You can't look back and second-guess, or you'll never get anything done.
That's one thing about this place. It has a weird way of giving you time to think.
[There's a steady rhythm of quiet wooshes as his Hitmonlee shadowboxes.
Blake makes a tired, almost amused huff of breath.] Human? Hell, that's one of the nicest things anybody's ever called me.
"Pig," I got that one a lot. But there was this one guy who, honest to fuckin' god, he thought I was the devil. Kept sticking crosses in my face and telling me to [he waves his hand] "return to the abyss" or "reveal my true form," no matter how many times I told him, buddy, this is all I got.
Then one day, instead of a cross, it was a gun.
[He snorts to himself.] Crazy idiot. He was goddamn lucky Jayden didn't shoot him.
[Remembering that day troubles him now, more than he's quite let it before.]
[action] IT IS A KEY SUSPECT
Split-seconds, huh.
[Blake's eyes fall down to his hands. He rubs his thumb on a sore knuckle.]
I've done some bad shit, kid. Sometimes in a split second. Sometimes...real planned out.
It was always what somebody had to do. You can't look back and second-guess, or you'll never get anything done.
That's one thing about this place. It has a weird way of giving you time to think.
[There's a steady rhythm of quiet wooshes as his Hitmonlee shadowboxes.
Blake makes a tired, almost amused huff of breath.] Human? Hell, that's one of the nicest things anybody's ever called me.
"Pig," I got that one a lot. But there was this one guy who, honest to fuckin' god, he thought I was the devil. Kept sticking crosses in my face and telling me to [he waves his hand] "return to the abyss" or "reveal my true form," no matter how many times I told him, buddy, this is all I got.
Then one day, instead of a cross, it was a gun.
[He snorts to himself.] Crazy idiot. He was goddamn lucky Jayden didn't shoot him.
[Remembering that day troubles him now, more than he's quite let it before.]