[Niles makes a noncommittal grunt. He does have Henry. But as far as he knows, no one else has any idea of his potential involvement and he wants to keep it that way. Bringing him in to deal with Mello not only puts his ace in the hole right next to an open flame, it exposes his one unknown advantage far too early.]
Are you not the enemy of my enemy? Isn't that close enough?
Consider Mello's also the enemy of my enemy. [Though there's something in Myr's tone that says he wishes, dearly, it weren't so.
Niles hadn't threatened, repeatedly, to kill him out of jealous pique. Niles--for all his other vices and shortcomings--wasn't entirely consumed by the Original Sin. Niles was decent, in his own way; cared, in his own way, for those who needed it most, where Mello was eaten up entirely by short-sighted selfishness.
But Niles wouldn't be swayed from what he intended for L and so, here they are.]
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But there are reasons Myr cannot hold the knife, not least among them what it may do to L, if Myr should kill his tormented successor.
(The sound of L's skull cracking as he hit the ground still rings in the Faun's ears.)
Breath in, breath out.]
Then you'll need to make some friends, won't you.
[That Mello might also stand in Niles' way... that hasn't escaped Myr, either.]
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Are you not the enemy of my enemy? Isn't that close enough?
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Niles hadn't threatened, repeatedly, to kill him out of jealous pique. Niles--for all his other vices and shortcomings--wasn't entirely consumed by the Original Sin. Niles was decent, in his own way; cared, in his own way, for those who needed it most, where Mello was eaten up entirely by short-sighted selfishness.
But Niles wouldn't be swayed from what he intended for L and so, here they are.]
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Tchk! There's orders of magnitude of difference here.
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I know. You're vastly to be preferred.
But you'll both hurt him. [So rather than choose the lesser of two evils, he's refusing to choose evil at all.
Maybe that's a kind of cowardice.]
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Well, consider it an open invitation to collaborate.
[Just in case he grows a spine at some point.]
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[Who knew. If Mello became a more imminent threat, it might be wise to take Niles up on the offer--
But for now Myr's drawn his line.]