[The delineation - us versus them, me versus everyone else - is so familiar, so old and familiar that it makes Cassel dizzy. There are the things that you do to other people, things that you do to marks, things that you don't do to family.]
[In six words, without meaning to, Bond has cemented himself forever and always as family, the bad kind and the good kind all at once wrapped up together. The kind for which you make exceptions; the kind that holds you steady when you want to just give up and fall down. The kind that fights with you against the world, if it's necessary, and sometimes even when it's not.]
[But Cassel knew that already. He knew that from, if not the beginning, then close to it. Bond is not a Sharpe, but he is Sharpe-like. He is - familiar, like the lingering, painful scent of his father's cologne on his old suits. And new, too. Totally new.]
[Cassel smiles, beatific, and bows his head as if in prayer.]
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[The delineation - us versus them, me versus everyone else - is so familiar, so old and familiar that it makes Cassel dizzy. There are the things that you do to other people, things that you do to marks, things that you don't do to family.]
[In six words, without meaning to, Bond has cemented himself forever and always as family, the bad kind and the good kind all at once wrapped up together. The kind for which you make exceptions; the kind that holds you steady when you want to just give up and fall down. The kind that fights with you against the world, if it's necessary, and sometimes even when it's not.]
[But Cassel knew that already. He knew that from, if not the beginning, then close to it. Bond is not a Sharpe, but he is Sharpe-like. He is - familiar, like the lingering, painful scent of his father's cologne on his old suits. And new, too. Totally new.]
[Cassel smiles, beatific, and bows his head as if in prayer.]
I wouldn't do that to you.