[ Ah. He knows what it is to say that straightforwardly. To speak of dying with plain clarity and without fear.
Stephen halts, turns to face him fully. A pause as he considers, recalculates, and then: ]
You may not die. If you're taken to the camps they'll work you for as long as it takes for you to find yourself stumbling back into the tunnels, and that can feel like a long time. If you don't work, or if you're bound direct for experimentation, you'll go to the labs. I can't tell you what they'll do to you there because I don't know. It's not always pain, sometimes it is. You and I both know there are worse things.
[ Anyone who can frankly say "I die a lot better than I lead" knows that, there's no way they don't. That all said, he waits.
Death and leadership run a fairly even score in Stephen Strange. But he's not about to let anybody throw themselves to the wolves without their full comprehension, no matter how useful they might be. ]
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Stephen halts, turns to face him fully. A pause as he considers, recalculates, and then: ]
You may not die. If you're taken to the camps they'll work you for as long as it takes for you to find yourself stumbling back into the tunnels, and that can feel like a long time. If you don't work, or if you're bound direct for experimentation, you'll go to the labs. I can't tell you what they'll do to you there because I don't know. It's not always pain, sometimes it is. You and I both know there are worse things.
[ Anyone who can frankly say "I die a lot better than I lead" knows that, there's no way they don't. That all said, he waits.
Death and leadership run a fairly even score in Stephen Strange. But he's not about to let anybody throw themselves to the wolves without their full comprehension, no matter how useful they might be. ]