Ezio considers the balance of his own patience. What patience may have done with Larry, what honesty might have done better.
But Larry wasn’t interested in a fight.
A fight, Ezio thinks, takes two. And where he lacked the tenderness Larry needed, he thinks he has the fight Kovacs may demand.
“I could have gone where my family’s enemies would never find me, hidden away in Spain,” he says. “I instead put thirty years into an uprising greater than me, and expect to put in as many more as our enemies will allow. So tell me about yours. I want to know the cause you fought for, even for a time.”
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But Larry wasn’t interested in a fight.
A fight, Ezio thinks, takes two. And where he lacked the tenderness Larry needed, he thinks he has the fight Kovacs may demand.
“I could have gone where my family’s enemies would never find me, hidden away in Spain,” he says. “I instead put thirty years into an uprising greater than me, and expect to put in as many more as our enemies will allow. So tell me about yours. I want to know the cause you fought for, even for a time.”