but in response to yu's slightly reluctant admittance of their not entirely smooth detective operation, charles only has a soft, understanding look to give in return — he knows, after all, what it's like. what it's like to muck up a case, what it's like to find out the truth and wish you hadn't, what it's like to solve a case and have a client go vengeful in response... it's a rare thing where things go perfectly. ]
Hey, you solved it, though. That's what matters. And yeah, maybe someone else could have done it differently — better, even... but they didn't, did they? You cared enough to try and solve it, and got to it, in the end. [ and that's no small thing. ]
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but in response to yu's slightly reluctant admittance of their not entirely smooth detective operation, charles only has a soft, understanding look to give in return — he knows, after all, what it's like. what it's like to muck up a case, what it's like to find out the truth and wish you hadn't, what it's like to solve a case and have a client go vengeful in response... it's a rare thing where things go perfectly. ]
Hey, you solved it, though. That's what matters. And yeah, maybe someone else could have done it differently — better, even... but they didn't, did they? You cared enough to try and solve it, and got to it, in the end. [ and that's no small thing. ]