His kids? [He can barely say it.] He made his kids do this?
[It took five years of brutality, torture, training, and loneliness to make Oliver a capable defender of the city. Having a man, a friend, around who challenges him to be human - it's the only thing that keeps him from becoming a well-practiced killer. It's been hard to even think of his first fatalities in this fight as murders, hard to think past names on a list he's memorized to see the faces of the people he thought he'd never see again.
He can't imagine having a child next to him, landing an arrow in a target's heart. For the first time in a long time he feels properly sick at the thought.
Oliver looks away, getting to his feet and offering her a hand up.] I can't leave you here.
[He believes her. He actually believes her. It's a shock to realize it, and once he has, he knows he has to keep her safe until they can find out what's happened.]
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[It took five years of brutality, torture, training, and loneliness to make Oliver a capable defender of the city. Having a man, a friend, around who challenges him to be human - it's the only thing that keeps him from becoming a well-practiced killer. It's been hard to even think of his first fatalities in this fight as murders, hard to think past names on a list he's memorized to see the faces of the people he thought he'd never see again.
He can't imagine having a child next to him, landing an arrow in a target's heart. For the first time in a long time he feels properly sick at the thought.
Oliver looks away, getting to his feet and offering her a hand up.] I can't leave you here.
[He believes her. He actually believes her. It's a shock to realize it, and once he has, he knows he has to keep her safe until they can find out what's happened.]