a snippet from DOWN INTO DARKNESS

[lagilman]

When she came out, her skin was still pale and green-tinged, but the control that marked a good Operative was back in place. "We do good work. The means aren’t always just, but…"

"Justification for murder, fraud, and setting up more innocents to die?"

"Are they?" she asked. "Are any of us really innocent? Your friend… I never met her. But she was a member of the Silence. To protect the innocent is our motto. That means we take on the onus of not being innocent. We see too much. We know too much. Sometimes, we do too much. That’s the cost."

"Are you willing to wake up at 3 in the morning, knowing what cost you’ve paid, out of your soul, if you sit and do nothing?"

"I’m awake at 3 in the morning anyway, Sergei. Aren’t you?"

He had an answer for her.

"No. I’m not. I sleep through the night, now."

And with that, he walked away.






Pandora and the proofs:


Boomer takes a spin with the red pencil:

Comments

[eeknight.livejournal.com]

About five hundred more words would have been nice. I was enjoying my chicken salad with it, and ran out of Serg before I ran out of salad.

[lagilman]

You're not the first to refer to Sergei as an entree.

Maybe the first hetero male, tho...

[eeknight.livejournal.com]

Guys can enjoy other guys in action without going all gay :) I think John Wayne can make pouring a cup of coffee look interesting, and I have yet to tire of Harrison Ford's boyish smile, but I've never wanted to wake up next to either of them.

I like to watch Serge bubble and smoulder, there's something volcanic about him.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Sergei is moralizing. Somehow, that surprizes me.

[lagilman]

Moralizing? No. Drawing a line in the sand, yes. And one he's quite comfortable with.

[arouraleona.livejournal.com]

Well that is one adorable kitten! And the psudo-almost-maybe spoiler was very teasery... nicely played!

[wolfsilveroak.livejournal.com]

ROTFL, your cats have been talking to my cats. Both Aries and Max do that to me.}:)