This was going to give him a migraine. "Do you even hear yourself? 'Evil comes in many forms; it can be hard to recognize, but not by me, I'm infallible. I am definitely correct when I unilaterally decide the people who just so happened to be helping me out were good and not evil, and also that you're evil and not good. I know literally almost nothing about anyone involved, but I'm a dragon so I'm right,' is that the gist of it? So evil is a thing that happens in front of you? From what I'm gathering, my actual crime was to do something you didn't approve of where you could see.
"When you say 'show you the way,' you mean 'take you,' right? Don't bother trying to couch your shit at this fucking stage. I can show you the way. It's that way." He pointed northeast. "I don't know why I'm bothering to say this, given that it'll be ignored completely, but no. I don't go into Crithe. I definitely don't go into Crithe in the company of a dragon who's planning on robbing someone in the dumbest way possible. Presumably just landing and introducing yourself to see if your magic evil-dar pings. Better hope he's in the middle of petty crime when you show up, huh? Putting aside that you would get me killed, I would also get me killed. Have you put any thought at all into why I live the way I do, or have you just written me off as villainous? I can't go into a town or a city the size you're talking about. Keeping a 'low profile' is physically impossible, and also you appear to find my very existence and the effect I can't but to have on people 'evil,' and I don't actually want to test just how far your moral relativism of 'it's not evil if it helps me specifically' can be pushed. Also, practically speaking, given how we're on foot unless you intend to fly us into Crithe, by the time we got there I'd probably get fucking snowed in and wind up stuck all winter, which I would think was a deliberate plan if you had showed any ability to have deliberate plans up to this point."
He let out a long, pained sigh. "You know what the worst thing is? I could literally get you your fucking gold. I could take some things from one town, resell it in another for way more than it was worth, and maybe manage to stay on the move enough to not get caught, stalked, or put to death. But no. That would be way too practical and sensible and not involve you landing wholesale in a castle to menace to noble into giving you their gold." He couldn't help but laugh at the prospect. "God. Your idea of good really is baffling. Crimes are fine if they happen to bad people, but you're the judge of what that is... Why bother? Why do you even feel the need to paint this dumb veneer of nobility over this obvious policy of just doing whatever the hell you want? I don't get it."
"When you say 'show you the way,' you mean 'take you,' right? Don't bother trying to couch your shit at this fucking stage. I can show you the way. It's that way." He pointed northeast. "I don't know why I'm bothering to say this, given that it'll be ignored completely, but no. I don't go into Crithe. I definitely don't go into Crithe in the company of a dragon who's planning on robbing someone in the dumbest way possible. Presumably just landing and introducing yourself to see if your magic evil-dar pings. Better hope he's in the middle of petty crime when you show up, huh? Putting aside that you would get me killed, I would also get me killed. Have you put any thought at all into why I live the way I do, or have you just written me off as villainous? I can't go into a town or a city the size you're talking about. Keeping a 'low profile' is physically impossible, and also you appear to find my very existence and the effect I can't but to have on people 'evil,' and I don't actually want to test just how far your moral relativism of 'it's not evil if it helps me specifically' can be pushed. Also, practically speaking, given how we're on foot unless you intend to fly us into Crithe, by the time we got there I'd probably get fucking snowed in and wind up stuck all winter, which I would think was a deliberate plan if you had showed any ability to have deliberate plans up to this point."
He let out a long, pained sigh. "You know what the worst thing is? I could literally get you your fucking gold. I could take some things from one town, resell it in another for way more than it was worth, and maybe manage to stay on the move enough to not get caught, stalked, or put to death. But no. That would be way too practical and sensible and not involve you landing wholesale in a castle to menace to noble into giving you their gold." He couldn't help but laugh at the prospect. "God. Your idea of good really is baffling. Crimes are fine if they happen to bad people, but you're the judge of what that is... Why bother? Why do you even feel the need to paint this dumb veneer of nobility over this obvious policy of just doing whatever the hell you want? I don't get it."
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