Let me tell you something about desperate men, Logan - something I'm sure you're rather intimately acquainted with, actually, if I'm not mistaken.
[While the usual lightness hasn't left Reaver's tone any, there's a bit of an odd look in his eyes; it's far more attentive than the haughty, distantly amused sort of look he usually gives people. He still doesn't seem overly scrutinizing or even particularly invested in what's going on as a whole, but still, this is at least something of an indication that he's taking the conversation seriously - or he's taking this part of it seriously, anyway.]
I've known many, many desperate men in my time, you know - normally strong, rational men who were suddenly facing an ending that was quite inescapable. Whether that ending was enslavement, imprisonment, death...none of that really matters; what matters is how they responded to it. And wouldn't you know it, the first thing that most of them did was try to bargain. Either with me, should I be the one holding their fate in my hands, or with the circumstances themselves.
I've found that in desperate times, desperate men don't like believing there's nothing they can do. So they'll take reason and throw it rather neatly out the window, in favor of anything that looks like a way out.
If you can bring me proof somehow that these..."badges" do anything to send anyone home - any proof at all! - then believe me, I'll do everything in my power to obtain them. But until then? I have no reason to believe they do any more than any other object one can obtain here.
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[While the usual lightness hasn't left Reaver's tone any, there's a bit of an odd look in his eyes; it's far more attentive than the haughty, distantly amused sort of look he usually gives people. He still doesn't seem overly scrutinizing or even particularly invested in what's going on as a whole, but still, this is at least something of an indication that he's taking the conversation seriously - or he's taking this part of it seriously, anyway.]
I've known many, many desperate men in my time, you know - normally strong, rational men who were suddenly facing an ending that was quite inescapable. Whether that ending was enslavement, imprisonment, death...none of that really matters; what matters is how they responded to it. And wouldn't you know it, the first thing that most of them did was try to bargain. Either with me, should I be the one holding their fate in my hands, or with the circumstances themselves.
I've found that in desperate times, desperate men don't like believing there's nothing they can do. So they'll take reason and throw it rather neatly out the window, in favor of anything that looks like a way out.
If you can bring me proof somehow that these..."badges" do anything to send anyone home - any proof at all! - then believe me, I'll do everything in my power to obtain them. But until then? I have no reason to believe they do any more than any other object one can obtain here.