It isn't your fault, Xie Lian. Maybe I'm a little stupid for saying so, but... I feel like a family should protect each other. It isn't on just one person to be strong for everyone else, but for everyone to be strong enough together to protect one another.
[ it's how he feels about the town, too: in unity, there is strength. and really, where there's that, there's peace - there's the potential to work things out, to look out for each other. but -- he also knows that bad blood isn't so easily flushed from the body, so to say, and even something like that would take time... ]
...Blood-related or not, you're all family. You look out for one another, so it isn't just your fault. [ a slight slump. ] Besides, this is probably more of my fault than anything... As police, it's my duty to solve issues and keep the peace, but it wasn't until recently that I could act on any leads with regards to the kidnappings. Before that, I'd gotten notices from an unknown sender telling me to do my job and so on. You could say it wasn't my fault that I wasn't aware of things, or that it wasn't my fault I didn't have anything to follow, but as it is... It's my job to find those things and bring justice to those who deserve it.
[ and yes - he isn't the whole of the police force. what he said before is true for them too: everyone works together, looks out for each other. but he is the police that's sitting beside xie lian now, apologizing. ]
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[ it's how he feels about the town, too: in unity, there is strength. and really, where there's that, there's peace - there's the potential to work things out, to look out for each other. but -- he also knows that bad blood isn't so easily flushed from the body, so to say, and even something like that would take time... ]
...Blood-related or not, you're all family. You look out for one another, so it isn't just your fault. [ a slight slump. ] Besides, this is probably more of my fault than anything... As police, it's my duty to solve issues and keep the peace, but it wasn't until recently that I could act on any leads with regards to the kidnappings. Before that, I'd gotten notices from an unknown sender telling me to do my job and so on. You could say it wasn't my fault that I wasn't aware of things, or that it wasn't my fault I didn't have anything to follow, but as it is... It's my job to find those things and bring justice to those who deserve it.
[ and yes - he isn't the whole of the police force. what he said before is true for them too: everyone works together, looks out for each other. but he is the police that's sitting beside xie lian now, apologizing. ]