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</div><br/><div style="text-align: center">《 Ray Jr 》<br/>
Location: Abendblume<br/>
Addressing: Alvaro <a class="username" data-user-id="288" data-username="Flannel King" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/288/">Flannel King</a>​</div><br/>Ray laid back and listened as Alvaro spoke his concerns and also expressed the lines that his father had crossed. Of course, the way Hale saw it, he doubted he realized the toll it all took on the man. Violence was necessary in a lot of instances but they needed to share the same vision. They had to understand the price. Hale Sr. sometimes chose violence because it was easier, not because it was necessary.<br/><br/>"Did my father want her dead? The woman you marked?" he wondered. A loose end, for sure, but Ray wouldn't encourage Alvaro to clean it up. When his father had made a mess that needed cleaning, he'd gone out himself to clean it up. He wouldn't ask things of Alvaro that he wasn't willing to do himself, unlike his father. He sighed.<br/><br/>"I don't want anyone else cast aside. I don't want to have to worry about loose ends either, or having to clean them up. My father only sees things from his narrow, uncompromising prospective. More enemies during this upcoming transition will become a problem, but we have to take our time. It's a sensitive matter, and retirement isn't something my father is ready for. Any more than I am ready for a wife, even if there was someone out there like you describe. And Roman.. he's going to do what he wants. I'm sure a family will come easier for him, just so long as he doesn't hear our father suggesting it. I'm not sure my family has what it takes to be in my inner circle. You saw what happened with my mother.." Keeping the family uninvolved was one thing he agreed with his father about. It was his love for his siblings that he preferred it that way and Ray didn't mind the independence.<br/><br/>"They don't live in reality. The live in the confines of what my father has created;<i> an idea.</i>I don't mind them keeping that illusion, as long as I can make the changes that need to be done to make Abendblume truly operational. Not just for the safety of my siblings, but for the community as a whole. I appreciate your thoughts and concerns. I am used to so few that actually live in the plane of reality in order to have these sorts of conversations." He'd tried with Hale and was shot down, assured that his father had it all under control. With Armando, it was hit or miss. Sometimes the man took him seriously, other times he treated him like a kid<i> or </i>a concern.<br/><br/>"No more making enemies. If my father tries to cast anyway else aside, I will intervene," Ray promised.