So is every opportunist. ( and the ai's continued evasion suggests a level of investment that one might even call personal. trying to decipher cassius' motives felt a bit like trying to play dejarik with both hands tied behind his back.
not impossible, not if you were determined enough, but you'd be at a severe disadvantage. )
We were foolish. ( to put it mildly.
it would be nice to say that the signs were all there, clear enough for those that knew were to look, but the fact is that they were desperate and disorientated and it had been turned against them. )
Desperate.
It made us easy targets. ( a better man might say that knowing the truth, they now could make better decisions going forward. more informed. but he had never been an especially good man, and el's willingness to deceive them right up until that option was no longer feasible for them was certainly telling. )
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not impossible, not if you were determined enough, but you'd be at a severe disadvantage. )
We were foolish. ( to put it mildly.
it would be nice to say that the signs were all there, clear enough for those that knew were to look, but the fact is that they were desperate and disorientated and it had been turned against them. )
Desperate.
It made us easy targets. ( a better man might say that knowing the truth, they now could make better decisions going forward. more informed. but he had never been an especially good man, and el's willingness to deceive them right up until that option was no longer feasible for them was certainly telling. )