understood have something to check on in bavan [You know, for a certain definition of "check on." Given the previous subject - he's probably still hunting.] i'll be back right after that
[Normally, he'd drop everything and come back right on cue. But he's already stepped deep enough into the water that it's closed over his head, by killing Kimbley. Or truly: by killing Kimbley and finding himself having judged wrong.]
[It's not a question of redeeming himself for killing Kimbley. Stocke's always been willing (perhaps too willing) to take blame. But...]
[Call it a sunk cost fallacy. One on the scale of lives.]
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understood
have something to check on in bavan
[You know, for a certain definition of "check on." Given the previous subject - he's probably still hunting.]
i'll be back right after that
[Normally, he'd drop everything and come back right on cue. But he's already stepped deep enough into the water that it's closed over his head, by killing Kimbley. Or truly: by killing Kimbley and finding himself having judged wrong.]
[It's not a question of redeeming himself for killing Kimbley. Stocke's always been willing (perhaps too willing) to take blame. But...]
[Call it a sunk cost fallacy. One on the scale of lives.]