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[survivalthroughhate]

"This is Maul. State your business."

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[survivalthroughhate]

Hmmm. The problem with wanting more for myself is that it has always inevitably led to more destruction and death. I'm not sure if I am the cause or if it just follows me about, clinging to me the way a spiderweb does when you walk through it.

[But Maul was confusing the lust for power with the need to change, which were too very different things. It's not that Maul is stupid. Sometimes, he's just very stubborn and thickheaded after the life he's led, which can make it hard for him to see any point-of-view that differs from him.]

You know, most adults think the same thing about relationships with children. They're stupid some of-- well, most of the time and tend to make the same mistakes over and over again, as well as focusing their time on the most inane things possible.

At least you seem to understand me better than some of my peers that are the same age. Not sure if that says very little about my state emotionally or very much about your sense of maturity.


[After Eddie goes off on another filibuster, there's another growl then, the same lines of big cat sound he'd made while roaring, just softer this time. Eddie's spent plenty of time around animals and he'll know that one quite well. The kind of snarl that said 'Back off and shut up' when one got too close to an angry, injured animal. He'd proven his point, that was enough. Maul didn't need more lectures from a dumbass kid and he certainly didn't want to examine that question too closely.

The answer, of course, was yes. Maul didn't have much fear in him, but the fear of what had happened to shape him into himself, to create the monster he currently had become, that was far too great for him to try and do something different. He was scared to try and just couldn't bring himself to do so. Though he was hardly going to admit that.

He lets that sound hang in the air and it's punctuated by Eddie laughing, which does cool off Maul a little bit.]

And I suppose the adults in this town need to keep an eye on you young idiots to make sure you don't do something stupid like walk off a cliff.