[It takes him aback, for a second. It's such - or it seems - such a ubiquitous assumption on the barge, that changing someone's mind is worse than death. Which dovetails with his own fears, his own damage and assumptions. He does feel guilt about not killing a man, and that's all kinds of messed up. Thou shalt not kill. He kills so easily, at home. But he didn't want to kill Hannibal, didn't want to crack his skull open and squirm out from under the mess. He's so tired of killing. He blinks rapidly.]
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I...hadn't thought of it that way.