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RE: There Are Rules: Finish the Story Contest #31
This was an interesting and challenging prompt and I dig the direction you took it in. The hostility between Luke and O’Hallaron in that final scene is palpable! The fact that he takes his revenge in a way that upholds the letter of the rules, and punishes Angelus’s hypocrisy, gives it extra punch. I don’t think getting revenge ever brings people much happiness or closure, it but it definitely makes for some satisfying fiction! Great read! :D
What a subtle reading of my little ending. Yes, exactly, it's about rules--their cruelty, their hypocrisy. You looked past Luke's obvious moral weakness to the main idea: rules give Angelus and Luke an out to be cowardly and cruel. O'Hallaron, as irritating as she may be to me, is actually heroic. The heck with the rule. This is Dr. Angelus, a human being. I want him to live.