Despite himself, a chuckle escapes him. "As long as Ezekiel Jones is confident in Ezekiel Jones, then everythin's gonna be all right."
Maybe...maybe he could figure it out. It was a tiny amount of hope, but it was there, like a candle, all the same.
"It's...really sad, man. The place he and Quill came from? Norfinbury? The old Flynn, from back when he was all good and normal--well, in Librarian terms and actual decent human being terms--he got messed up by that place. Quill got messed up by that place. They were like..." Like me and you. "They were pals, best friends, until Quill became immortal, got stuck there for like, a thousand years and he just...lost it. He ended up betraying the old Flynn and it was...I saw it, some of it anyway," he shakes his head. "When I say Quill's bad news--he's bad news. It was torture, he tortured him. And then the town did something to make Flynn this way, somethin' to do with...with updating personalities onto people and he went home before it could be reversed, so now we're left with this guy...and old Flynn's gone."
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Despite himself, a chuckle escapes him. "As long as Ezekiel Jones is confident in Ezekiel Jones, then everythin's gonna be all right."
Maybe...maybe he could figure it out. It was a tiny amount of hope, but it was there, like a candle, all the same.
"It's...really sad, man. The place he and Quill came from? Norfinbury? The old Flynn, from back when he was all good and normal--well, in Librarian terms and actual decent human being terms--he got messed up by that place. Quill got messed up by that place. They were like..." Like me and you. "They were pals, best friends, until Quill became immortal, got stuck there for like, a thousand years and he just...lost it. He ended up betraying the old Flynn and it was...I saw it, some of it anyway," he shakes his head. "When I say Quill's bad news--he's bad news. It was torture, he tortured him. And then the town did something to make Flynn this way, somethin' to do with...with updating personalities onto people and he went home before it could be reversed, so now we're left with this guy...and old Flynn's gone."