[Genuine in tone, rather than anything that could be mistaken as condescending. He hadn't asked for the role of captain and he hadn't been given it - he knew his place. And he knew why she wouldn't trust that yet.]
I had many year's experience of being a leader before I was a monster. It's that I'm hoping to offer you and this crew. Not the rest.
[Level, meeting her gaze. She knew what he'd been. There was no hiding from that, but the parts of him that wanted to were fuelled by shame, not secrecy and ambition. She didn't yet trust him, but he could meet that quite easily in how he didn't yet trust himself.]
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[Genuine in tone, rather than anything that could be mistaken as condescending. He hadn't asked for the role of captain and he hadn't been given it - he knew his place. And he knew why she wouldn't trust that yet.]
I had many year's experience of being a leader before I was a monster. It's that I'm hoping to offer you and this crew. Not the rest.
[Level, meeting her gaze. She knew what he'd been. There was no hiding from that, but the parts of him that wanted to were fuelled by shame, not secrecy and ambition. She didn't yet trust him, but he could meet that quite easily in how he didn't yet trust himself.]