alt_charlie: by <user name=norfolkdumpling site=livejournal.com> (thoughtful)
alt_charlie ([personal profile] alt_charlie) wrote 2014-03-19 08:40 pm (UTC)

Re: Order Only Private message to Mum

Yeah. I've been thinking about it a bit, and -- I know we can't be certain, not with how she's been in the past, but I think it's well past time we started dangling a few little bits of bait for her, and see what she does with them. Because if we do decide she's to be trusted, and let her in on the secret of the Order, we're going to have to do it carefully so she doesn't hear "we've been keeping this from you because you weren't trustworthy".

Because even if that's what we have been doing, for years, nobody wants to hear that. And the irony is, finding out that someone's been keeping a secret from you for that long can make you react in ways you otherwise wouldn't, and even if she is trustworthy -- and I'm not sure, not completely -- if we're not incredibly careful we might make her lash out in ways she'll regret later.

I've been thinking a lot about that kind of thing lately and

I hope she does want to come up for the visit. We'll see how things go.

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