I didn't mean I was dishonest. I told you the truth. We just never covered 400 years, none of us. I was what I was. It always felt as if the fact that my cells regenerated was more important than the men I had been, the life I lived before the lot of you came along. And without that--how could any of you really understand?
Yes. That I can see. It will be...interesting to watch.
A rather useless one, I admit. Rather hard to make decisions based on lack of planning and drive. But it's an admission in honesty so it will do.
Nathan has disappeared from the hospital. Only Peter could help him do that. No word, no idea. My boys, both of them, are gone. With that girl, I assume.
There was nothing that made it seem relevant. What mattered was the man you'd become, the man we knew. The man that would lead us, keep us together. If you had thought it important, you would have told me. I didn't pry into your past, just as you didn't pry into my privacy... that you let me know. Maury wasn't subtle but he was easily detected.
As he self destructs, and takes Nathan with him. Yes, won't that be grand. Does sarcasm translate in text?
What girl? Why would she help them leave? Did someone...Claire? Was Claire there?
It should have been. I should have told you more, perhaps. Not Kaito, but you. To explain...I see so many places now where I went wrong. How I failed to show you all what everything meant, what I meant, and the whys and whens of it. I kept too much to myself.
If it were in my power, I would stop that from happening.
That does not make you unique, Adam. Not by a long shot.
My, likely, future daughter in law. Sasha... something. It makes me shudder. Sasha Petrelli? What sort of name is that? As for Claire... I assume she's with the family she choose. Where they are now is beyond me. Noah went and got himself shot, brilliant man that he is.
I'll be honest. I don't know if you're suddenly about me and what I should have known because you felt that way at the time, or because I'm what you have left of that time. It's disconcerting, to say the least. You showed us nothing but power, fun and then destruction. Wrong or not, I don't see how you fault us the reaction you received.
This is between you and I and if you ever repeat it, I will find a way to see you pay. You know I am good for my word, Adam but... It's all gone. Arthur, my boys, my grandsons. I got them away. Only Daniel stopped them from being treated as others were. But look at the children, Adam. Maury's boy has turned into his father. He was willing to nearly destroy me to get what he wanted. My boys are out of control. Mendez's boy was a druggie before Sylar got him. Hiro? Elle? You blame my parenting skills but it's... something. I don't even know what but look at them all. You can't stop it. It's meant to be, and this time I think it's beyond what we've done.
Hiro Nakamura buried me alive in a coffin next to Kaito. Only by the grace of a very good friend did I get out. That boy has a twisted sense of revenge. ... I taught him too well, apparently.
Then why would Peter move Nathan when he was so critical? Risking his life? He wouldn't be that irresponsible.
I don't remember why I didn't then. Perhaps I didn't think it important, either. I've had a lot of time to think about the things I would do differently, to change what happened. If anything would have made it work, made it all come together properly.
Angela--I've kept the rest of your secrets. No reason to start betraying them now. It can't be meant to be, Angela, not that they're meant to be as they have been. They are the most powerful generation I have ever seen come forth, in all these centuries. And no one has led them. No one has taught them. Hiro is the closest to stable with his power of any of them. Bob tortured Elle. Nathan and Peter were kept in the dark. Maury...well. There's always bad seeds. Isaac never learned to control his power...
They weren't taught, Angela. They weren't led. It's not just you, no. But it's as if you all got so frightened of me you shut down letting the children flounder in a world where they didn't fit and didn't know how to fit. They need someone to lead them, and there has been no one.
I shouldn't be amused but, truly, it is something Kaito would have done.. and appreciated. I might have smiled.
Yes! Yes he would! Peter has never put his full thought into anything in his life. Not to mention that if Nathan told him to do it, he would jump. Nathan has a missing sense of self preservation sometimes. Leads him to making dicey gambles. Sometimes they pay off. Sometimes they get him in a bed, charred and ruined. That day, the day I came in and he was healed. I knew you were loose. Before Maury attacked me and before the pictures, I knew and it terrified me.
Nathan was the only leader in the bunch, Adam. And he turned on what he was offered to protect Peter, rather than making his brother grow up.
And all of them nearly got themselves killed by a sociopathic rogue that that damned geneticist unleashed on the world.
From what I heard on the news, Nathan wasn't talking much. Were his injuries exaggerated? Terrified? That I was coming? Of what I would do when I found you? Healing him...Yes. Well. I suppose you were right to be frightened.
If they had both been prepared...No. Even that...did you underestimate them that much? The bond between them? Even I knew how to win Peter's absolute loyalty.
Yes, well. Even I couldn't have foressen Sylar or Suresh's work with him.
No, they were not exaggerated. He was touch and go for most of his first night. Yes, I was worried. You made quite a few threats in the end, the last I saw you. Not to mention you were planning genocide at the time you were locked up. What was I to think when I realised you were free? And then the picture. I'm still not sure what to think of that given what you did, or had done, to Kaito. Not to mention Victoria.
We tried to raise them to both be as Nathan was. Strong, determined, no nonsense. Boys that could become men to lead. None of us were leaders on our own and I think that was our downfall. Yourself, Nakamura, Bob and Linderman all vying for control, for power. I wanted my boys to be designed to be leaders. President and Vice President. Peter never lived up to his potential. Perhaps I underestimated their bond. It didn't help the control I lost within our organization and was unable to guide certain events. Daniel's treatment of Nathan. The Company taking Peter after he failed at Kirby.
I always found it interesting they found your plan, with the virus, to be unacceptable. But they would destroy New York to obtain the same end - the World recognizing us for what we are.
They have no leader, they have no desire to further our goals. I'm not certain constant immersion would have changed that. Our generation had vision, we had grown up in the spector of war and sought Nirvana from it. They constantly see perfection in the most broken things and call it beauty.
Suresh should have been destroyed early on. I'm sure he would have had they known how he was treating his patients, and the sort he was willing to take on as part of his experiments. This boy, Gabriel Gray, was never stable it would seem and is now wanted for murdering his mother, over and above what Sylar has done to the evolved.
No, I don't suppose there is. At least my bad week brightened yours.
But he stabilized? Still...why would Peter take him? Where would he take him? I was cranky. I had cause to be. I'm calmer now. Mostly. Hiro and I still have a reckoning coming. And Victoria was about to kill Peter. I killed her in self-defense and defending him.
That was another mistake--this whole collegiate atmosphere. We needed a leader and they ought not to have thought they were in any position to take that control. Linderman and Bob never respected you as they should have. I would have. I do.
Yes, the irony of that kept me rather infuriated for a good couple of years.
But they could have had a leader. They could have fallen in line behind us, if we had...if you had taught them. Shown them what the world was. This culture of entitlement that has sprung up, that I see everywhere will cause this world's downfall more surely than anything I could ever bring about--what will be left will be a rudderless generation unfit for anything.
I agree. But they have a very bad habit of underestimating most people.
I'm alone in a very large home. All of my family is gone. My last true friend - you notwithstanding because I still am not sure where we stand - is dead and you killed her. The brightness is a very dim brightening indeed.
He was doing well, but in a coma, when he went missing. It could well be he woke up and demanded Peter get him out of there. I wouldn't put it past him at this point. I'm beginning to think if I told him to go out and save the world, to be a hero, he'd sit around and do nothing and stop interfering, just because he thinks it's not what I want.
It was, always has been, a good old boys club. You have to admit, you did little to stop that in your time. Victoria was a scientist. I was, am, more powerful in a very subtle way than most of them. But it wasn't flashy, nothing to show off overt power. And easily circumvented. I was little more to them than Arthur's wife, a lover to some, a friend to very few. The desire to destroy them now is strong. But I know my place and I do not have the resources I once did. Not with Arthur gone. Kaito as well. You know, if it had been you and not Daniel that had brought about Arthur's death, I could blame you for the death of everyone close to me. Two out of three, Adam.
If I had taught them. Dammit, Adam, you weren't there! You think it's easy. Children are the most vicious beings on the planet. It was hard enough for them, despite the money and the name, to be that different? To constantly wonder if and when? Nathan didn't even manifest until a year ago! He was older than you were when you finally realised what you could do. Peter was the same. They aren't like Claire and that child of the Sanders woman. Like Molly Walker. It's THAT generation that we have a chance with. All the planning and breeding is paying off. Most of our generation did not manifest until recently. Adults with fully formed psyches. It's like herding cats.
Constantly. Again, Arthur's influence. Perhaps my own if I look over my friends, living and dead.
I'm sorry I haven't anything else to offer to brighten it more.
How very contrary of him. I think that just made me smile.
I have always appreciated subtle. If my treatment of you and Victoria as equals was lacking, I apologize and blame my upbringing and the majority of my life. I'm still adjusting to the shifts in social mores. Being locked away from them for 30 years didn't help me acclimate. As for the death of everyone close to you...welcome to my world. And I gave you your children back, or at least got Peter out of a cell. That you lost them again is not my fault, and my assistance there should balance something on the scale.
Would Bob's head on a platter, metaphorically of course, because that would be far too messy, cheer you up? For what he did to Peter? For the things he told Nathan?
Then we focus in on the next generation. On the children. The rest of them are so self-involved I doubt they'd even notice. If they can't be reached, then we go beyond them. Though, personally, Peter and Claire are rather special to me--two others with a chance to stand the test of time. Do you know what it's like to not have that? Can you imagine it, Angela?
I made my decisions, Adam. I live with them. I did what was best, what I knew. We came from diverse backgrounds, from cultures a world apart. We all did what we thought we could. Or what we had to. Do you think I wanted Bennet raising Claire? Nathan wasn't ready when she was born but Bennet? She should have been with me, where she was raised a Petrelli, not some simpering cheerleader with more bravada than brains! She made be special to you but that man ruined her.
Please, don't smile over your perceived reasonings for Nathan's rebellion. If that were the case, don't you think he'd have more sight than that, more vision for the future we once held precious?
I could then, and perhaps now, excuse your actions as a man of another time. That does not excuse the others. They were of my generation, my world. I blame breeding. Though one other treated me fairly. He's gone now due to illness. Deveraux. He was a good man in a pit of vipers.
I would almost endure the messing for literal, but metaphorically shall do. He destroyed what chance we had, Adam. I tried to fight back once. rthur's dead and Heidi was left in a wheelchair. Nathan could have been killed. I stopped fighting then. My grandsons would have been next.
You give Peter too much credit and Nathan too little but self involved is true.
You know, the Walker child is technically an orphan being raised by a cop with a bad record and an abusive, criminal father and the son of an insane geneticist. A good lawyer and we could start over with that generation.
Can't she be taken away, as well? Surely you and Nathan have rights?
My smile had nothing to do with any perceived reasonings--for once. Just amusement at the image.
I am glad to be excused, for all that I'm trying to do better. And, yes. Charles was special.
Oh, if you want literal, I can give you literal. I'm fine with literally taking his head from his shoulders. I just thought it might muss your drawing room.
I think you underestimate Peter--blinded by Nathan. Who I want to believe in, but if he can't be brought to see reason, then we'll have to go around him.
She's sixteen, spoiled and tempermental. Ask your little blonde friend about it, I'm sure she could explain it better than I. She deserted us, me, just as Nathan did at Kirby. Ruined everything between the two of them. BOTH over their little inability to distinguish reality from Peter.
Oh, the drawing room can be cleaned. That's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I will see Nathan preserved. You know all I went through for him, from the very first moment that it was decided I would conceive. He had to be silenced, this shooting was not my idea but I did what I had to to remain alive and in good graces. With new leadership, I wouldn't have to do that.
The Sanders boy as well. Not as if his Mother is a fit parent. That pairing was Linderman's idea and the child is the only redeeming factor.
I never would have taken her from you. To give her to Bennet to raise was foolhardy.
Then you shall have his head.
I can't take control of all of them alone. Not without the virus. I can lead them, but I'll need help without an central focus to rally them around. Even Bob doesn't have control anymore. The virus would have given me that, given me a chance to pull everyone together to fight a common evil. But they're so scattered now, I don't think they even know where the evil is anymore.
Micah? Yes. He should be easy, all things considered. From what I hear, he wants nothing more than to use his powers to be a hero. We can work with that.
Kaito made the decision. He made the call to kill the girl's mother, to take the child. He made the decision whom to give her to. I suspect it was, more than for Claire's sake, a way of cementing his hold over Bennet. Looking at both of his children, one can see the poor example of a father that he is.
So good to me.
No, they think they know wherein the evil lies now. It's with us, Adam. They blame all of us for every ill in their lives when they don't realise that none of it would happen if they wouldn't continually work to be and act like everything we never wanted. If any of them would listen, behave, then they would have it all. Instead they have cast us in light of monster. And in us, I do mean both the Company as well as you and I personally. We are their evil, Adam.
He worked well for the Company before. It was his ability that assured Nathan his election. You are right in that one thing. We have to start with them young. I do realise that mistake, though I see it not as a mistake as much as a different in ideals.
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Re: Locked to Adam
Date: 2007-12-13 08:19 pm (UTC)They've disappeared? Both of them?
I didn't mean I was dishonest. I told you the truth. We just never covered 400 years, none of us. I was what I was. It always felt as if the fact that my cells regenerated was more important than the men I had been, the life I lived before the lot of you came along. And without that--how could any of you really understand?
Yes. That I can see. It will be...interesting to watch.
Re: Locked to Adam
Date: 2007-12-14 04:27 am (UTC)Nathan has disappeared from the hospital. Only Peter could help him do that. No word, no idea. My boys, both of them, are gone. With that girl, I assume.
There was nothing that made it seem relevant. What mattered was the man you'd become, the man we knew. The man that would lead us, keep us together. If you had thought it important, you would have told me. I didn't pry into your past, just as you didn't pry into my privacy... that you let me know. Maury wasn't subtle but he was easily detected.
As he self destructs, and takes Nathan with him. Yes, won't that be grand. Does sarcasm translate in text?
Re: Locked to Adam
Date: 2007-12-14 05:50 am (UTC)Did that translate appropriately?
What girl? Why would she help them leave? Did someone...Claire? Was Claire there?
It should have been. I should have told you more, perhaps. Not Kaito, but you. To explain...I see so many places now where I went wrong. How I failed to show you all what everything meant, what I meant, and the whys and whens of it. I kept too much to myself.
If it were in my power, I would stop that from happening.
Re: Locked to Adam
Date: 2007-12-14 06:03 am (UTC)My, likely, future daughter in law. Sasha... something. It makes me shudder. Sasha Petrelli? What sort of name is that? As for Claire... I assume she's with the family she choose. Where they are now is beyond me. Noah went and got himself shot, brilliant man that he is.
I'll be honest. I don't know if you're suddenly about me and what I should have known because you felt that way at the time, or because I'm what you have left of that time. It's disconcerting, to say the least. You showed us nothing but power, fun and then destruction. Wrong or not, I don't see how you fault us the reaction you received.
This is between you and I and if you ever repeat it, I will find a way to see you pay. You know I am good for my word, Adam but... It's all gone. Arthur, my boys, my grandsons. I got them away. Only Daniel stopped them from being treated as others were. But look at the children, Adam. Maury's boy has turned into his father. He was willing to nearly destroy me to get what he wanted. My boys are out of control. Mendez's boy was a druggie before Sylar got him. Hiro? Elle? You blame my parenting skills but it's... something. I don't even know what but look at them all. You can't stop it. It's meant to be, and this time I think it's beyond what we've done.
Re: Locked to Adam
Date: 2007-12-14 06:35 am (UTC)Then why would Peter move Nathan when he was so critical? Risking his life? He wouldn't be that irresponsible.
I don't remember why I didn't then. Perhaps I didn't think it important, either. I've had a lot of time to think about the things I would do differently, to change what happened. If anything would have made it work, made it all come together properly.
Angela--I've kept the rest of your secrets. No reason to start betraying them now. It can't be meant to be, Angela, not that they're meant to be as they have been. They are the most powerful generation I have ever seen come forth, in all these centuries. And no one has led them. No one has taught them. Hiro is the closest to stable with his power of any of them. Bob tortured Elle. Nathan and Peter were kept in the dark. Maury...well. There's always bad seeds. Isaac never learned to control his power...
They weren't taught, Angela. They weren't led. It's not just you, no. But it's as if you all got so frightened of me you shut down letting the children flounder in a world where they didn't fit and didn't know how to fit. They need someone to lead them, and there has been no one.
Re: Locked to Adam
Date: 2007-12-14 06:45 am (UTC)Yes! Yes he would! Peter has never put his full thought into anything in his life. Not to mention that if Nathan told him to do it, he would jump. Nathan has a missing sense of self preservation sometimes. Leads him to making dicey gambles. Sometimes they pay off. Sometimes they get him in a bed, charred and ruined. That day, the day I came in and he was healed. I knew you were loose. Before Maury attacked me and before the pictures, I knew and it terrified me.
Nathan was the only leader in the bunch, Adam. And he turned on what he was offered to protect Peter, rather than making his brother grow up.
And all of them nearly got themselves killed by a sociopathic rogue that that damned geneticist unleashed on the world.
Re: Locked to Adam
Date: 2007-12-14 07:09 am (UTC)From what I heard on the news, Nathan wasn't talking much. Were his injuries exaggerated? Terrified? That I was coming? Of what I would do when I found you? Healing him...Yes. Well. I suppose you were right to be frightened.
If they had both been prepared...No. Even that...did you underestimate them that much? The bond between them? Even I knew how to win Peter's absolute loyalty.
Yes, well. Even I couldn't have foressen Sylar or Suresh's work with him.
Re: Locked to Adam
Date: 2007-12-14 12:03 pm (UTC)No, they were not exaggerated. He was touch and go for most of his first night. Yes, I was worried. You made quite a few threats in the end, the last I saw you. Not to mention you were planning genocide at the time you were locked up. What was I to think when I realised you were free? And then the picture. I'm still not sure what to think of that given what you did, or had done, to Kaito. Not to mention Victoria.
We tried to raise them to both be as Nathan was. Strong, determined, no nonsense. Boys that could become men to lead. None of us were leaders on our own and I think that was our downfall. Yourself, Nakamura, Bob and Linderman all vying for control, for power. I wanted my boys to be designed to be leaders. President and Vice President. Peter never lived up to his potential. Perhaps I underestimated their bond. It didn't help the control I lost within our organization and was unable to guide certain events. Daniel's treatment of Nathan. The Company taking Peter after he failed at Kirby.
I always found it interesting they found your plan, with the virus, to be unacceptable. But they would destroy New York to obtain the same end - the World recognizing us for what we are.
They have no leader, they have no desire to further our goals. I'm not certain constant immersion would have changed that. Our generation had vision, we had grown up in the spector of war and sought Nirvana from it. They constantly see perfection in the most broken things and call it beauty.
Suresh should have been destroyed early on. I'm sure he would have had they known how he was treating his patients, and the sort he was willing to take on as part of his experiments. This boy, Gabriel Gray, was never stable it would seem and is now wanted for murdering his mother, over and above what Sylar has done to the evolved.
Locked to Angela
Date: 2007-12-14 05:22 pm (UTC)But he stabilized? Still...why would Peter take him? Where would he take him? I was cranky. I had cause to be. I'm calmer now. Mostly. Hiro and I still have a reckoning coming. And Victoria was about to kill Peter. I killed her in self-defense and defending him.
That was another mistake--this whole collegiate atmosphere. We needed a leader and they ought not to have thought they were in any position to take that control. Linderman and Bob never respected you as they should have. I would have. I do.
Yes, the irony of that kept me rather infuriated for a good couple of years.
But they could have had a leader. They could have fallen in line behind us, if we had...if you had taught them. Shown them what the world was. This culture of entitlement that has sprung up, that I see everywhere will cause this world's downfall more surely than anything I could ever bring about--what will be left will be a rudderless generation unfit for anything.
I agree. But they have a very bad habit of underestimating most people.
Locked to Adam
Date: 2007-12-14 05:40 pm (UTC)He was doing well, but in a coma, when he went missing. It could well be he woke up and demanded Peter get him out of there. I wouldn't put it past him at this point. I'm beginning to think if I told him to go out and save the world, to be a hero, he'd sit around and do nothing and stop interfering, just because he thinks it's not what I want.
It was, always has been, a good old boys club. You have to admit, you did little to stop that in your time. Victoria was a scientist. I was, am, more powerful in a very subtle way than most of them. But it wasn't flashy, nothing to show off overt power. And easily circumvented. I was little more to them than Arthur's wife, a lover to some, a friend to very few. The desire to destroy them now is strong. But I know my place and I do not have the resources I once did. Not with Arthur gone. Kaito as well. You know, if it had been you and not Daniel that had brought about Arthur's death, I could blame you for the death of everyone close to me. Two out of three, Adam.
If I had taught them. Dammit, Adam, you weren't there! You think it's easy. Children are the most vicious beings on the planet. It was hard enough for them, despite the money and the name, to be that different? To constantly wonder if and when? Nathan didn't even manifest until a year ago! He was older than you were when you finally realised what you could do. Peter was the same. They aren't like Claire and that child of the Sanders woman. Like Molly Walker. It's THAT generation that we have a chance with. All the planning and breeding is paying off. Most of our generation did not manifest until recently. Adults with fully formed psyches. It's like herding cats.
Constantly. Again, Arthur's influence. Perhaps my own if I look over my friends, living and dead.
Locked to Angela
Date: 2007-12-14 05:52 pm (UTC)How very contrary of him. I think that just made me smile.
I have always appreciated subtle. If my treatment of you and Victoria as equals was lacking, I apologize and blame my upbringing and the majority of my life. I'm still adjusting to the shifts in social mores. Being locked away from them for 30 years didn't help me acclimate. As for the death of everyone close to you...welcome to my world. And I gave you your children back, or at least got Peter out of a cell. That you lost them again is not my fault, and my assistance there should balance something on the scale.
Would Bob's head on a platter, metaphorically of course, because that would be far too messy, cheer you up? For what he did to Peter? For the things he told Nathan?
Then we focus in on the next generation. On the children. The rest of them are so self-involved I doubt they'd even notice. If they can't be reached, then we go beyond them. Though, personally, Peter and Claire are rather special to me--two others with a chance to stand the test of time. Do you know what it's like to not have that? Can you imagine it, Angela?
It's not a mistake I'll make again.
Re: Locked to Angela
Date: 2007-12-14 06:03 pm (UTC)Please, don't smile over your perceived reasonings for Nathan's rebellion. If that were the case, don't you think he'd have more sight than that, more vision for the future we once held precious?
I could then, and perhaps now, excuse your actions as a man of another time. That does not excuse the others. They were of my generation, my world. I blame breeding. Though one other treated me fairly. He's gone now due to illness. Deveraux. He was a good man in a pit of vipers.
I would almost endure the messing for literal, but metaphorically shall do. He destroyed what chance we had, Adam. I tried to fight back once. rthur's dead and Heidi was left in a wheelchair. Nathan could have been killed. I stopped fighting then. My grandsons would have been next.
You give Peter too much credit and Nathan too little but self involved is true.
You know, the Walker child is technically an orphan being raised by a cop with a bad record and an abusive, criminal father and the son of an insane geneticist. A good lawyer and we could start over with that generation.
Locked to Angela
Date: 2007-12-15 04:11 am (UTC)My smile had nothing to do with any perceived reasonings--for once. Just amusement at the image.
I am glad to be excused, for all that I'm trying to do better. And, yes. Charles was special.
Oh, if you want literal, I can give you literal. I'm fine with literally taking his head from his shoulders. I just thought it might muss your drawing room.
I think you underestimate Peter--blinded by Nathan. Who I want to believe in, but if he can't be brought to see reason, then we'll have to go around him.
...The idea has more than a little merit.
Re: Locked to Angela
Date: 2007-12-15 05:16 am (UTC)Oh, the drawing room can be cleaned. That's a once in a lifetime opportunity.
I will see Nathan preserved. You know all I went through for him, from the very first moment that it was decided I would conceive. He had to be silenced, this shooting was not my idea but I did what I had to to remain alive and in good graces. With new leadership, I wouldn't have to do that.
The Sanders boy as well. Not as if his Mother is a fit parent. That pairing was Linderman's idea and the child is the only redeeming factor.
Re: Locked to Angela
Date: 2007-12-15 07:57 am (UTC)Then you shall have his head.
I can't take control of all of them alone. Not without the virus. I can lead them, but I'll need help without an central focus to rally them around. Even Bob doesn't have control anymore. The virus would have given me that, given me a chance to pull everyone together to fight a common evil. But they're so scattered now, I don't think they even know where the evil is anymore.
Micah? Yes. He should be easy, all things considered. From what I hear, he wants nothing more than to use his powers to be a hero. We can work with that.
Re: Locked to Angela
Date: 2007-12-15 03:27 pm (UTC)So good to me.
No, they think they know wherein the evil lies now. It's with us, Adam. They blame all of us for every ill in their lives when they don't realise that none of it would happen if they wouldn't continually work to be and act like everything we never wanted. If any of them would listen, behave, then they would have it all. Instead they have cast us in light of monster. And in us, I do mean both the Company as well as you and I personally. We are their evil, Adam.
He worked well for the Company before. It was his ability that assured Nathan his election. You are right in that one thing. We have to start with them young. I do realise that mistake, though I see it not as a mistake as much as a different in ideals.