["If that's how you want to think of it," is so close to slipping out, but...
But even now, he conceals that weariness, that exhaustion, that despair that comes in knowing that you've been beaten at every turn and it's time to stop and realize there's just no winning. He's survived these past few years in spite of everything, and what did any of it amount to?]
I won't... allow my power to be used like that.
[A better answer, he thinks, almost like he still has a shred of defiance left in him.]
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But even now, he conceals that weariness, that exhaustion, that despair that comes in knowing that you've been beaten at every turn and it's time to stop and realize there's just no winning. He's survived these past few years in spite of everything, and what did any of it amount to?]
I won't... allow my power to be used like that.
[A better answer, he thinks, almost like he still has a shred of defiance left in him.]