Canto 13: Red Wrath, Green Envy

[canto_01]

Ada Wong, I know your game. Even if no one else seems to acknowledge it, I do; you're using all of us, playing out your little games all while confident that we won't call you on it. You even dare to speak to me- me, of all people!- as though I'm some kind of pet on your leash, that I'll do what you please because you show some shred of decency

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[wrathredemption]

You should kill them if they're trying to use you.

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[canto_01]

I should. I've done it before, and I have no regrets. Yet... I can't. Not yet.

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[wrathredemption]

How come?

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[canto_01]

Don't ask that-

((There's a slightly pained sound, as though GRAM is forced to say something he doesn't want to))

...I want to pretend that she's different.

[coy_smile]

'Know my game,' huh? Sorry to disappoint you, GRAM, but you're giving me a bit more credit than I deserve. I don't hold all the cards in this little game.

Really, now. Discard you? Reprogram you? I'm hurt.

[canto_01]

You hold enough. You treat real humans as your playthings, don't think I'm so naive as to believe you wouldn't jump at the chance to have your own personal 'tin man'.

[coy_smile]

My own personal...?

GRAM. I'm not that woman.

[canto_01]

That's the only thing that's kept me from acting. Nevertheless, you are a lot like her, and I won't let myself be another woman's plaything.

[canto_01]

I should, but even if I did, it would be swift and final. I don't derive any satisfaction from a slow death.

[canto_01]

Even then such would not be the case; Wesker being an interesting example of finality being quite negotiable.

...why do you care whether I make someone suffer or not?

[kennedy_san]

Just be advised that if you make any sort of threats or actions against Ada, they will not be tolerated.

[canto_01]

I don't ask for tolerance. And if that is a threat to stop me, I would welcome your attempt.