( he can't help but smile a little to himself, seeing the way his own advice has been passed on from luffy to his crew. nice to know that luffy was listening, sometimes. it's the next messages that give him pause, the smile fading into something more pensive. )
Careful, you're almost starting to sound like me.
( but he mulls those words over for a moment — they can move you in the right direction — and despite how easy it would be to shoot back something pessimistic, to say something like it's not that easy ... maybe it is that easy. and maybe isn't such an awful thing to hope. )
I'm not sure I know what the right direction is anymore, but I suppose you've a point.
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Careful, you're almost starting to sound like me.
( but he mulls those words over for a moment — they can move you in the right direction — and despite how easy it would be to shoot back something pessimistic, to say something like it's not that easy ... maybe it is that easy. and maybe isn't such an awful thing to hope. )
I'm not sure I know what the right direction is anymore, but
I suppose you've a point.