I get that it seems like ALASTAIR wants to help other people, and if that's really their mission then fine, but...
[Jason's right about that.
Asher wants to finally be a part of something that's not wholly terrible, to work for a boss who doesn't destroy people's lives. Annalise does a lot of good but her methods are questionable at best, and she doesn't seem to particularly care for people's feelings.]
I don't wanna keep doing this if we're screwing someone over.
Someone we don't know about.
[David Allen had been rotting in jail for what, over 20 years?
That's almost as long as Asher has been alive. The realization hits him then and there, quieting him as he tries to keep up. He vaguely remembers his first time visiting a fancy restaurant where the waiters took coats and the women looked like they belonged in movies; he couldn't have been older than five or six. His family had been celebrating a recent career victory of his father's, a promotion...
Were they toasting to the lifelong imprisonment of an innocent human being, too?
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[Jason's right about that.
Asher wants to finally be a part of something that's not wholly terrible, to work for a boss who doesn't destroy people's lives. Annalise does a lot of good but her methods are questionable at best, and she doesn't seem to particularly care for people's feelings.]
I don't wanna keep doing this if we're screwing someone over.
Someone we don't know about.
[David Allen had been rotting in jail for what, over 20 years?
That's almost as long as Asher has been alive. The realization hits him then and there, quieting him as he tries to keep up. He vaguely remembers his first time visiting a fancy restaurant where the waiters took coats and the women looked like they belonged in movies; he couldn't have been older than five or six. His family had been celebrating a recent career victory of his father's, a promotion...
Were they toasting to the lifelong imprisonment of an innocent human being, too?
He doesn't want that to happen again.]