[He offers a reassuring smile at latter comment--sympathetic, without wilting, as though projecting a certainty that matters shall be rectified.]
I'm certainly gratified to see you've found a way to transform that into a strength, here, offering a perspective from which many of us have been partially or wholly sheltered, and a... comfort with it that can be difficult to cultivate.
As to District X, though... certain people will take advantage of whatever capabilities they have to do well by themselves at everyone else's expense--some due to poor character, and others are driven to it by the cruelties of fortune. But having been sheriff, there, you must have seen more than the criminal aspect.
As far back as I can remember, I've never really known anyone else with such 'gifts' as those of us, here... at least, not to my knowledge, at the time. [He smiles a little to himself--perhaps a bit of a mysterious gesture at that point in the conversation, without its context.] I can scarcely begin to imagine an entire community...
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I'm certainly gratified to see you've found a way to transform that into a strength, here, offering a perspective from which many of us have been partially or wholly sheltered, and a... comfort with it that can be difficult to cultivate.
As to District X, though... certain people will take advantage of whatever capabilities they have to do well by themselves at everyone else's expense--some due to poor character, and others are driven to it by the cruelties of fortune. But having been sheriff, there, you must have seen more than the criminal aspect.
As far back as I can remember, I've never really known anyone else with such 'gifts' as those of us, here... at least, not to my knowledge, at the time. [He smiles a little to himself--perhaps a bit of a mysterious gesture at that point in the conversation, without its context.] I can scarcely begin to imagine an entire community...