Ragdoll shifted slightly, curling his arms over and around Billy's shoulders as much as he could in the current position. It was a mimic of a hug, and his voice was actually soothing, but that didn't quite match up with the words. "Yes, we did. We hurt them to get them to talk in the first place. They were trained, you see. It takes time to untrain. Time and terrible amounts of pain."
It was, he felt, reasonable to be satisfied by hearing as much. Deadshot had mentioned, once, while he'd been only half-listening, "the place you can't come back from," and William had not been there yet, even asking to hear this.
And, sometimes, people died. Sometimes they just died, or sometimes, they died to save other lives. He didn't need to have moral reasons for killing, personally; he wasn't actually sure he'd recognize what those were for certain. But if a few would-be killers died to save William, what of it? William was worth more.
"They didn't last very long after they talked, because we were in a hurry, and they had been quite stubborn." So they would have died soon after anyway. "But before, yes, we hurt them."
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It was, he felt, reasonable to be satisfied by hearing as much. Deadshot had mentioned, once, while he'd been only half-listening, "the place you can't come back from," and William had not been there yet, even asking to hear this.
And, sometimes, people died. Sometimes they just died, or sometimes, they died to save other lives. He didn't need to have moral reasons for killing, personally; he wasn't actually sure he'd recognize what those were for certain. But if a few would-be killers died to save William, what of it? William was worth more.
"They didn't last very long after they talked, because we were in a hurry, and they had been quite stubborn." So they would have died soon after anyway. "But before, yes, we hurt them."