Purity shook her head.
Tattletale added, “It’s up to you. Who are you going to trust, when Aster is on the line? Me, or Kaiser?”
That was her argument?
It’s a solid argument if you’re fully aware of the relationship between Purity and Kaiser, which Taylor isn’t. It’s unclear just how much Tattle knows, as usual, but she definitely seems to have some idea.
I started to move to where I could attack Purity if it came down to it. A spearpoint pressing down against my collarbone stopped me. I looked up and saw Crusader behind me.
Oh hai.
Purity dropped her hand to her side. She told Tattletale, “You’re coming with me.”
“Didn’t expect any less. But you’re letting my team go, and this destruction stops.”
Seems like a fair trade for potentially getting Aster back, doesn’t it?
“And how do I know you’re not just sacrificing yourself for them?”
“Because whatever else you might be, Kayden, you somehow, in some warped perspective, see yourself as an upstanding person. And if I wasn’t an honest person when it counted, I wouldn’t trust you to hold to that. Make sense?”
…it kinda does.
It didn’t to me. It was circular reasoning. I wouldn’t have listened if it were Tattletale trying to convince me. The question was whether it would get through to Purity.
Hm… I don’t quite see why you’re calling that circular reasoning. I’m reading the argument as “If I weren’t also an honest person, I wouldn’t trust you to be.
By doing this, I’m implicitly trusting you to be honest. Therefore I am likely trustworthy as well.”
It’s not super solid reasoning, but I don’t think it’s circular.
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