[He's not surprised, really. He's been thinking of himself--only himself--through this whole conversation, and it's a conversation that should end now. It should have ended ten minutes ago--five minutes ago--but it's still going, and he keeps prolonging it, with a grim curiosity, the same way he'd press his thumb against a bruise, just to see, to see how long that dull pain lasts before it fades. How long can this last.
But he's not surprised that this lawyer's got some death in his past. Some murder. Who doesn't? Even in worlds without vampires, without that plague, without monsters, there's still evil, it's just the human evil.
And it's that same grim curiosity that has him press:]
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But he's not surprised that this lawyer's got some death in his past. Some murder. Who doesn't? Even in worlds without vampires, without that plague, without monsters, there's still evil, it's just the human evil.
And it's that same grim curiosity that has him press:]
And why didn't you.
[Because he knows what he would have done.]