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Nothing rewarding comes without a great price.

It depends on whether one is willing to pay that price.

Of course. Granted, with revenge, it is often well worth the price, I would imagine.

Often. Sometimes there are unintended costs.

That is why one must investigate the situation fully first.

Sometimes there are unintended costs even when one knows what one is doing.

Then one's plan was incomplete or faulty.

Or one was unaware of how far another person would be willing to go.

Incomplete, then. Better research was obviously required.

Because one forgot to consider the human factor, and the unpredictability thereof?

With proper research, a particular person or group of persons is terribly easy to predict.

Sometimes, but not always. I cannot even predict the actions of those I know best.

Then you obviously have very poor skills when it comes to researching people.

OOC: I feel like I should apologize for the muse, haha. She's a bit of a stalker-in-training, so...

Or the people reacted differently than I expected them to.

Thus you clearly do not know them as well as you delude yourself into thinking you do.

How well do you know your enemies?

I don't have any. ~~Yet.~~ However, Father does, and he can tell you absolutely everything about every one of them. They do not surprise him. It is simply impossible.

~~When~~ If I have enemies, I intend to be the same way.

I knew everything about him I needed to know. I got the result I wanted. I just didn't know what his wife would do.

You should plan for any eventualities.

You think such a thing is possible? His wife was not part of my plan. I did not need to know any more about her than I found out anyway.

Of course it is, and if you center a plan around one person, you should always consider everything about those around them.

Not one person. Three, all with their own plan.

It often demands more than it is worth.

You sound like you have personal experience with the matter.

Sought, watched others seek, and sought against me.

It wasn't worth it in the end?

Sometimes it is, sometimes not. What is the price you have to pay?

The lives of a couple of innocent people. I had no quarrel with them, they just got caught up in the middle. My only consolation is that it wasn't by my hand, just by my action.

A hollow consolation for most men of valor.

Inclines his head. Indeed. I did use my plan and knowledge to save a life, though, one that would have been lost otherwise, and in so doing allowed a marriage to take place.

So saving one life makes up for the two that would be damaged?

No. It's one fewer life that ended in all of this, although it would not have ended because of me.

So you keep mentioning. Is it how you justify yourself? How you hold yourself strong knowing your petty games are destroying other people?