a snippet from DOWN INTO DARKNESS
Jan. 17th, 2007 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanWhen she came out, her skin was still pale and green-tinged, but the control that marked a good Operative was back in place. "We do good work. The means aren’t always just, but…"
"Justification for murder, fraud, and setting up more innocents to die?"
"Are they?" she asked. "Are any of us really innocent? Your friend… I never met her. But she was a member of the Silence. To protect the innocent is our motto. That means we take on the onus of not being innocent. We see too much. We know too much. Sometimes, we do too much. That’s the cost."
"Are you willing to wake up at 3 in the morning, knowing what cost you’ve paid, out of your soul, if you sit and do nothing?"
"I’m awake at 3 in the morning anyway, Sergei. Aren’t you?"
He had an answer for her.
"No. I’m not. I sleep through the night, now."
And with that, he walked away.
Pandora and the proofs:
Boomer takes a spin with the red pencil:
