[Ephemera watches Sweets and nods just once. The disapproval is clear, but Sweets doesn't say a word. Not about the fire, at least. But if he'd been there, Ephemera feels confident that Sweets wouldn't have stopped them. There are lines that human beings aren't meant to cross, things that he wouldn't have even done to Washington, that were done to his brother and sister. And they had to be answered, there had to be retribution.
Sometimes, the only response to cruelty is to meet it.]
Yeah.
[His voice is calmer now.]
I don't know how. Thought you could help with that.
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Sometimes, the only response to cruelty is to meet it.]
Yeah.
[His voice is calmer now.]
I don't know how. Thought you could help with that.