[There's a pause, before he responds:] You're lucky your powers can even be that.
[And that's the closest he comes to wallowing in feeling sorry for himself, before he switches focus seamlessly, as if the previous statement had never even occurred.]
For all the added strength my condition can give me...no, like you, it isn't even a question were I offered to trade one for the other. I wasn't like this before. I know what it's like, to have a normal life. To have my life. I want it back.
It isn't a crime, to want that much. It's only what we should have, in the first place.
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[And that's the closest he comes to wallowing in feeling sorry for himself, before he switches focus seamlessly, as if the previous statement had never even occurred.]
For all the added strength my condition can give me...no, like you, it isn't even a question were I offered to trade one for the other. I wasn't like this before. I know what it's like, to have a normal life. To have my life. I want it back.
It isn't a crime, to want that much. It's only what we should have, in the first place.