Everything about my life is about knowing secrets and keeping them. Which paintings are real and which ones aren't. Who asked for what documentation. Which celebrities came to visit, and what politicians paid more money than was sane to ensure that either their secrets are kept, or that they had other peoples secrets without them knowing how.
So if I can't keep a secret, then I am failing. Majorly.
That said, I know WHEN to keep secrets, and from whom. Nothing going on in my life NOW is kept from Arthur. With what we're dealing with, with the supernatural and the madness that comes with it, keeping secrets on this level endangers us both. There's things from before that he doesn't know. Things that I'm sure as hell never going to tell him, even if he asks after me mentioning it like this. Those secrets don't matter, but what I know, what I've done? Course I know how to keep a secret.
Now, that said? There's a lot, a fucking lot, of secrets I've "collected" that I never kept. It's the business we do. You're there, luring answers out of people, and eventually someone is going to pay you pretty good money for those secrets. That's the difference
Some secrets aren't secrets at all. They're business. Business is just that. It's all about the profit, the turn over. It's about doing something that others said you can't do, and then proving to them that you can. Those aren't secrets that you keep, and they don't count.
Semantics, right? I think I'm okay with that. Just like I'm okay with what I've done with the secrets in my life. Wanna know where some of my secrets lie?
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So if I can't keep a secret, then I am failing. Majorly.
That said, I know WHEN to keep secrets, and from whom. Nothing going on in my life NOW is kept from Arthur. With what we're dealing with, with the supernatural and the madness that comes with it, keeping secrets on this level endangers us both. There's things from before that he doesn't know. Things that I'm sure as hell never going to tell him, even if he asks after me mentioning it like this. Those secrets don't matter, but what I know, what I've done? Course I know how to keep a secret.
Now, that said? There's a lot, a fucking lot, of secrets I've "collected" that I never kept. It's the business we do. You're there, luring answers out of people, and eventually someone is going to pay you pretty good money for those secrets. That's the difference
Some secrets aren't secrets at all. They're business. Business is just that. It's all about the profit, the turn over. It's about doing something that others said you can't do, and then proving to them that you can. Those aren't secrets that you keep, and they don't count.
Semantics, right? I think I'm okay with that. Just like I'm okay with what I've done with the secrets in my life. Wanna know where some of my secrets lie?
48.8606° N, 2.3376° E 40.7794° N, 73.9632° W 41.9065° N, 12.4536° E