[Of course there is. He's tied John's freedom to the one concession he can never make - the only acceptable exchange for him is one tiny freedom for the loss of every other one.
Why in god's name couldn't Petre just wake up sane someday? Wake up as something he could actually desire without dreading and avoiding the fact for his own sanity?]
You're only fucking yourself over right now. [His laugh is cold, but not arrogant. He knows he's been caught in checkmate again.] That's the best part, that you don't even get that.
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Why in god's name couldn't Petre just wake up sane someday? Wake up as something he could actually desire without dreading and avoiding the fact for his own sanity?]
You're only fucking yourself over right now. [His laugh is cold, but not arrogant. He knows he's been caught in checkmate again.] That's the best part, that you don't even get that.