Kevin could do this all day. His body had been engineered for efficiency, lithe strength, and the ability to do business all the live-long day!
Of course, they couldn't do much to engineer his patience. They could condition it, enforce it, but even he had his slip-ups now and again...and this? Trying his patience. It might have seemed as if he was being terrible, but the truth was that he had no idea why Cecil was having such trouble with the concepts he was presenting. How...close-minded.
"Basic human decency? Letting the bodies of your hometown heroes and loved ones decay away into nothing? Wow, what different standards your culture has from mine! That would be the ultimate form of disrespect back in Desert Bluffs - I know if I were killed, I would prefer something useful to be done with my body. I'm actually still a little put out that no one used my corpse from the last arena for anything."
A beat. Now he had talked himself out of being irritated over Cecil and into being irritated over something else.
"I mean, I have good strong bones. Could have been weapons! I mean, with these teeth, it seems like kind of a no-brainer, right? Plenty of good meat here, too."
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Of course, they couldn't do much to engineer his patience. They could condition it, enforce it, but even he had his slip-ups now and again...and this? Trying his patience. It might have seemed as if he was being terrible, but the truth was that he had no idea why Cecil was having such trouble with the concepts he was presenting. How...close-minded.
"Basic human decency? Letting the bodies of your hometown heroes and loved ones decay away into nothing? Wow, what different standards your culture has from mine! That would be the ultimate form of disrespect back in Desert Bluffs - I know if I were killed, I would prefer something useful to be done with my body. I'm actually still a little put out that no one used my corpse from the last arena for anything."
A beat. Now he had talked himself out of being irritated over Cecil and into being irritated over something else.
"I mean, I have good strong bones. Could have been weapons! I mean, with these teeth, it seems like kind of a no-brainer, right? Plenty of good meat here, too."