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Atlas would never, not even fleetingly, compare her to Nemesis Upstead.
Smiling a little as Araneus crawled around, smiling because his familiar seemed to enjoy being out of the barns and somewhere where she could stretch all of her limbs...and also seemed to have taken a keen interest into a beetle that was scurrying nearby. At least her two most forefront legs were in defense position.
"How do you know they are lying?" asks politely while still keeping an eye on Araneus. He drew no conclusions from this himself, but it was curious how she was so certain of this. Therefore...he wanted to know what empirical evidence she had to back the claims. He thought he had empirical evidence about one thing...turned out he had been wrong. Being 12 was confusing. Good thing he was only 12 for another couple of months and then he could just reset at 13.
"...but you don't know those institutions either, you only assume to," he retorted rather prickly. How did he know she did not understand? Everything about her radiated it. It was like she was a sun fueled by ignorance and he had gotten too close and her words had burned him. "And in judging those ... you are judging the people that make them and work tirelessly to maintain them and try to improve things. You say these things failed you...well none of this was even about you. Or me. It was greater than all of us. Greater than these so-called failed institutions who were bested because the other side was methodical and studied their targets. They...they took dad...and replaced him with someone ...we didn't know dad was gone until...until..." He wasn't even sure until when...or when the switch had been made between the fake!dad and the Imperio'd!dad. That was a whole therapy session to be had. "...and tortured him...for ... along time...two years or more maybe ... trying to get information out of him ..."
He didn't care that she suddenly seemed hurt by whatever it was he had said, she deserved it with all her sweeping accusations and finger pointing. It was a very human reaction, he knew that, in trying to make sense of something that made no sense. But it didn't make her right. It just made her petty as far as this Gryffindor was concerned.
"How do I know you can't understand? Because it doesn't seem like you want to. Because the way you talk and act on these topics and with people you have never even met is all the empirical evidence I need."
Oh...look at that. Araneus had caught herself a snack. RIP the beetle.
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