"Well, maybe that marvelous capacity for befriending monsters as you so put it, is the reason we got along poorly."
Because, and Hickey will go to his grave saying this, he's not a monster. Sure, other people probably think so. But other people weren't in the same situation he was. They just don't know.
"It's not like it matters now, though. There's no point speculating about someone who's not here."
"What a surprise, I don't like a man who doesn't know me from Adam making assumptions," he says, with a steely tone in his voice. It's obvious from this conversation that those first impressions went poorly and he does not like Jedao.
"So if you're going to be like that, I'd appreciate it if you just bugger off."
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Because, and Hickey will go to his grave saying this, he's not a monster. Sure, other people probably think so. But other people weren't in the same situation he was. They just don't know.
"It's not like it matters now, though. There's no point speculating about someone who's not here."
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He's reminded, with an off-kilter and hideously inappropriate flare of amusement, of the time he called Harry a butcher.
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"So if you're going to be like that, I'd appreciate it if you just bugger off."