Obi-Wan is aging surprisingly well (obi1) wrote in valarlogs,
Whether or not Loras meant it that way--and Obi-Wan assumed he didn't--it sounded like a platitude: something he could say he'd heard a hundred times before. He decided to give the otherworldly young man a dose of reality. As he spoke, the Scottish burr slipped in more frequently than it had before.
"Do you want to know what people like me do, because I'll tell you. People like me are born in rat-infested houses with no doors. I was such a terror as a child that my mum gave me away at the first opportunity. I pissed away every chance I had at a normal life. I snorted everything I could. I fucked any woman I could get any hands on. My wife left and when she died, no one felt the need to tell me, because I--" he choked. Briefly. "I was a monster."
He lifted his coffee mug violently. "So, you're right. I can do anything. I reached for the stars."