Re: Lin A/Louis D
[This is probably the most sensible answer Lin has received so far, after a night of enigmatic warnings and bad reactions. He spends a good bit of time re-reading it.]
Driving him out of town isn't an option, and not just because he would send people back after us, but because then he would be somewhere else, doing the same thing to other people.
He wants to bring people down so he can help them up. That seems to be his fucking thing. And that shit is, admittedly, more complex, as a general rule, than your run-of-the-mill snot-nosed bully out of Nowhere, Oregon or the bored knots of bros with chains who hang in the back alleys of Oakland or the drunk gamblers from out of town, but I don't [...] - I get what you're saying. I know he has thugs. But, I can distract him. No matter how quiet people get, he's not going to forget about them, us, whatever. Why can't I just distract him from whatever else?