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Fear's eyes flick to the movement of Xalicus's hand almost as soon as he starts to make it, watching carefully, to make sure he's not planning to attack her. Not that he's given her any reason to think he would, but twenty or so years of having to live on the streets and deal with almost everyone else, at best, chasing you off, and trying to kill you at worst, tends to make one paranoid about things like that.

"True. Not that that happens often; usually even if both the sides, in general, are good - which is pretty rare itself, most of the time you wish they'd just wipe each other out - you'll still end up with people in them that aren't, so the one with more of those ends up being the bad one."
Naturally, Xalicus was at least as paranoid about Fear as she was about him. However, he decided he might as well continue the conversation. "Yes, that is so, but there are good people who do bad things, and bad people who do good things. Morality has many sides. It's not just who you are, but what you do."

"And then there are those who you just don't have any idea about. You think they're good, but it turns out they're bad, and then they realize that they're bad and try to be good... That sort of thing. It's so much more complicated than I'd like."