“Life is rarely so straightforward as the fairy tales would have us believe. Truth. Justice. Happy endings. Life is, and excuse my alphabet, effing complicated. Should children be held responsible for their genetics or circumstances or the way they were raised? Of course not. Yet after some arbitrary span of time, we do just that. Because at some point the responsibility has to shift to them. Yet how much of who we are is a product of our nature and nurture, really? I suppose the only thing that seems unambiguous is kindness and mercy. But even those are questionable if in granting them you’re denying victims justice or closure…” He sighed. “Like I said, it’s complicated.”
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Isla Frost,
Vampires Will Be Vampires