"Smart," he acknowledged easily. People who could jump jobs that way, excel in them regardless was a basis of intelligence that Raylan respected, to a point. "No better way, really. The old guys know all the tricks of the trade, the workable shortcuts.. The things that make it really good. Skill." It didn't matter that they were talking about things that lead to theft; Raylan could appreciate it nonetheless.
He'd done the same thing with Marshaling, even if it didn't seem that way. Art was a good example. He'd found something worth looking up to and aspired until he was there. It was less a passion, more a calling. A curse.
"Why law? It wasn't mining. It had good pay.. It pissed Arlo off.. Left home when I was 19 with the money my Aunt Helen gave me for it all - cash, in a suitcase that'd been buried for a good ten years. All I knew is that I didn't wanna be him. That I couldn't be him, however shallow that lie was. One moral conviction away, that's as far as that line is, at that age. So I became the thing he hated." Moreso after taking that path, Raylan knew how deep a betrayal it was to Arlo's idea of what Should Be. He kept his eyes in his lap. "Outta spite. Just so happens that startin' shootin' when you're ten and havin' a daddy known for duckin' the law is the perfect education for it."
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He'd done the same thing with Marshaling, even if it didn't seem that way. Art was a good example. He'd found something worth looking up to and aspired until he was there. It was less a passion, more a calling. A curse.
"Why law? It wasn't mining. It had good pay.. It pissed Arlo off.. Left home when I was 19 with the money my Aunt Helen gave me for it all - cash, in a suitcase that'd been buried for a good ten years. All I knew is that I didn't wanna be him. That I couldn't be him, however shallow that lie was. One moral conviction away, that's as far as that line is, at that age. So I became the thing he hated." Moreso after taking that path, Raylan knew how deep a betrayal it was to Arlo's idea of what Should Be. He kept his eyes in his lap. "Outta spite. Just so happens that startin' shootin' when you're ten and havin' a daddy known for duckin' the law is the perfect education for it."