Ice Cream With Maggie
Jan. 7th, 2018 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dresdenforhireContinued from here
I wasn't completely oblivious to Maggie's reaction to talk about the mantel. The problem is that part of me is tempted to use it as a way to keep her interest in me. I mean, out of all the cool dads the one with the Winter Mantle is the coolest, right? Ah temperature jokes, they never get old.
I figured I can use it as a teachable moment or something though. Without explaining the entire messy situation I don't know if I can make her understand that the Mantle is a bad thing that I did for a good reason and maybe that's doesn't make it okay. Or maybe she already understands, she's an incredibly bright kid and if anyone can grasp what I did it would be Maggie. I think part of it is I wasn't even sure if I did the right thing or not.
It would be so much easier if the messes we created in life just stayed contained to our lives. But they don't. Consequences have actions and there are ripples that go out that we can't even begin to understand the effects of in terms of greater consequences. But that doesn't always have to be a bad thing. I like to think that becoming the Winter Knight meant some other sadistic jerkface didn't get it. Instead just a jerkface got it and that's much better.
"See? The flesh of your enemies is delicious," I told her with a nod. "And I try not to use it at all. The Winter Mantle influences you mentally too and not in great ways. In pretty awful ways, actually."
I wasn't completely oblivious to Maggie's reaction to talk about the mantel. The problem is that part of me is tempted to use it as a way to keep her interest in me. I mean, out of all the cool dads the one with the Winter Mantle is the coolest, right? Ah temperature jokes, they never get old.
I figured I can use it as a teachable moment or something though. Without explaining the entire messy situation I don't know if I can make her understand that the Mantle is a bad thing that I did for a good reason and maybe that's doesn't make it okay. Or maybe she already understands, she's an incredibly bright kid and if anyone can grasp what I did it would be Maggie. I think part of it is I wasn't even sure if I did the right thing or not.
It would be so much easier if the messes we created in life just stayed contained to our lives. But they don't. Consequences have actions and there are ripples that go out that we can't even begin to understand the effects of in terms of greater consequences. But that doesn't always have to be a bad thing. I like to think that becoming the Winter Knight meant some other sadistic jerkface didn't get it. Instead just a jerkface got it and that's much better.
"See? The flesh of your enemies is delicious," I told her with a nod. "And I try not to use it at all. The Winter Mantle influences you mentally too and not in great ways. In pretty awful ways, actually."
