[ Five knows that Luther hates this, how he can manifest away from a confrontation, coming and going without any further explanation. Surely enough he's attempting to do so here; this answer is barely that, hardly the tip of the iceberg in terms of what the devil in a tight black dress was willing to offer him.
Accolades, a lofty position in the Temps Commission; the promise to see his siblings separated from harm. Just let events unfold as desired, as the apocalypse, The Handler said, was always meant to occur. But Five, if he's anything, is defiant and full of arrogance and damn determined to find a way to save his family on his terms.
But how do you save a man from himself and his own desires? Five did what he wanted and look where it got him—stuck at the end of the world, scrawling arithmetic over crumbling walls and willing to barter every decent peace of himself for a chance to get his family back.
There's no good way to explain it all, and so he doesn't. ]
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[ Five knows that Luther hates this, how he can manifest away from a confrontation, coming and going without any further explanation. Surely enough he's attempting to do so here; this answer is barely that, hardly the tip of the iceberg in terms of what the devil in a tight black dress was willing to offer him.
Accolades, a lofty position in the Temps Commission; the promise to see his siblings separated from harm. Just let events unfold as desired, as the apocalypse, The Handler said, was always meant to occur. But Five, if he's anything, is defiant and full of arrogance and damn determined to find a way to save his family on his terms.
But how do you save a man from himself and his own desires? Five did what he wanted and look where it got him—stuck at the end of the world, scrawling arithmetic over crumbling walls and willing to barter every decent peace of himself for a chance to get his family back.
There's no good way to explain it all, and so he doesn't. ]