And in the echo of that gladness, horror blooms within me. In its own strange way, it's a horror as deep as any I've experienced so far. I've succeeded in taking another human hostage, in making him urinate on himself. I made a plan to torture someone, and then I carried it out, and it satisfied me to do so. As much hurt and hell as the Wolfman has caused, I don't want to be his judge and jury, his jailer and tormentor. I don't want to be that person. I want to be good. I don't want to fall into a big, black pit of darkness, because what if I can't get out?
Why can__ I be like that? Why can__ I be the father who just shrugs off the love of his daughter? Why can__ I be the Lead Inquisitor who enjoys watching his pleading victims burn at the stake? Why can__ I be the one who befriends a lonely, lost girl and then casts her out? Why can__ I be the one to strike first, to hit so early and with such fury that my enemies cower before they can ever think of turning on me? What is so great about being good?
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Why can__ I be like that? Why can__ I be the father who just shrugs off the love of his daughter? Why can__ I be the Lead Inquisitor who enjoys watching his pleading victims burn at the stake? Why can__ I be the one who befriends a lonely, lost girl and then casts her out? Why can__ I be the one to strike first, to hit so early and with such fury that my enemies cower before they can ever think of turning on me? What is so great about being good?
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