AHAHA.

[agilebrit]

THERE it is.

You know what I've said before, about us being more afraid of what a good-guy character pushed to the brink of his endurance will do, rather than being afraid of what bad, scary thing will happen to them?

Yeah. Those of you who've read the short story "The Warrior," by Jim Butcher, in the Mean Streets collection, you know what I'm

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[honorh]

From PTerry's Men at Arms: "If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power, power over people, and they want to see you in fear. They want you to know you are going to die. So they'll talk. They'll gloat ... A good man will kill you with hardly a word."

[agilebrit]

Yeah, the fact that Ben allowed himself to be talked down from this at all was a miracle, and it was way too easy in the original. The scene is much better, but I've realized that it's broken in a far different and worse way than I originally thought.

Gah. It's always something.

[lady_moriel]

So do we get to see the new new climax?

[agilebrit]

Maybe, once I fix the OTHER broken part. texanfan is right, the motivations for Chrystal and Steegman getting Ben to the safe house and that whole setup need a lot more explanation than what I gave it. Right now, it makes NO sense.