[He's silent as she speaks, turning the pieces over in his mind. Ohio, like that, something private - he suspects, but he doesn't know for sure. He isn't going to assume out loud, he's just...
He's going to talk about himself for another minute.]
Mephisto lied to me, at first. Not just with Ariel, but- he planned to use me. I don't know for what, and I don't want to know; it's enough that he admitted it, and for a while, I was angry at him. [And himself, for falling for it. Stephen looks down at his hands] I still can't trust him completely...but at this point? After we've had our talks...I'm willing to believe that he's trying to be more than whatever...that was.
[Mephisto isn't Finn, though they both once pretended to be "decent".
But neither is everyone else.]
Sometimes people don't try to be better. Sometimes, they do. You need to find those ones, or at least try to be one, yourself.
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He's going to talk about himself for another minute.]
Mephisto lied to me, at first. Not just with Ariel, but- he planned to use me. I don't know for what, and I don't want to know; it's enough that he admitted it, and for a while, I was angry at him. [And himself, for falling for it. Stephen looks down at his hands] I still can't trust him completely...but at this point? After we've had our talks...I'm willing to believe that he's trying to be more than whatever...that was.
[Mephisto isn't Finn, though they both once pretended to be "decent".
But neither is everyone else.]
Sometimes people don't try to be better. Sometimes, they do. You need to find those ones, or at least try to be one, yourself.