[He can hear the guilt in Jake's voice and his fingers twitch to reach out and offer a comforting hand to his shoulder, or well...back, but they curl instead at the last moment. He isn't that brave, even now.]
Nothing. [He wracks his brain trying to recall anything at all, any hint he'd missed, but if it had been there he hadn't caught it.]
He didn't even tell me he had another teacher. I met Felix on Ciraiwei and if I'd known he was training Finn, I would have said something.
[He goes quiet for a long time and when he speaks again, his voice is steadier than before.]
I made many mistakes back home. Mistakes that hurt people. And sometimes I hurt people on purpose. Finn doesn't know, not really. [He'd alluded to some of it but that was hardly a confession.]
I'm not a good person, Jake, but I try to be. But this man, this is the kind of man I hurt on purpose. Someone who can hurt an innocent like Finn...
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Nothing. [He wracks his brain trying to recall anything at all, any hint he'd missed, but if it had been there he hadn't caught it.]
He didn't even tell me he had another teacher. I met Felix on Ciraiwei and if I'd known he was training Finn, I would have said something.
[He goes quiet for a long time and when he speaks again, his voice is steadier than before.]
I made many mistakes back home. Mistakes that hurt people. And sometimes I hurt people on purpose. Finn doesn't know, not really. [He'd alluded to some of it but that was hardly a confession.]
I'm not a good person, Jake, but I try to be. But this man, this is the kind of man I hurt on purpose. Someone who can hurt an innocent like Finn...
I'm going to handle it. This won't happen again.