All throughout the story, Devero listens. Occasionally nodding to show he understands, or making an encouraging sounds, but otherwise quiet and patient and grave.
It's a hell of a story. The general arc of it could be straight out of a historical stream set Before: the well-intentioned man deprived of opportunities and given an opportunity to gain back some of what he's been denied, who turns a blind eye to how he's betraying his ethics in pursuit of that opportunity and ultimately has to make a choice. Of course, there are a lot fewer aliens in the historical pieces, and they usually end with the main character making the wrong choice and destroying himself because of it.
Obviously, that's what Yondu thinks he's done. Devero knows him well enough by now to be clear on that, at least. But unless he's missing some context or detail, he's not sure that Yondu did make the wrong choice.
He leans forward a little, glancing sidelong at the other man. "Is that the first time you realized that he'd been-- using those kids, rather than caring for them? When you contacted him about Peter?"
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It's a hell of a story. The general arc of it could be straight out of a historical stream set Before: the well-intentioned man deprived of opportunities and given an opportunity to gain back some of what he's been denied, who turns a blind eye to how he's betraying his ethics in pursuit of that opportunity and ultimately has to make a choice. Of course, there are a lot fewer aliens in the historical pieces, and they usually end with the main character making the wrong choice and destroying himself because of it.
Obviously, that's what Yondu thinks he's done. Devero knows him well enough by now to be clear on that, at least. But unless he's missing some context or detail, he's not sure that Yondu did make the wrong choice.
He leans forward a little, glancing sidelong at the other man. "Is that the first time you realized that he'd been-- using those kids, rather than caring for them? When you contacted him about Peter?"