freshprints: (DEVICE ❈ sixty selfies and counting)
Kyoko Kirigiri ([personal profile] freshprints) wrote in [personal profile] konpeitoqueen 2014-06-19 12:23 am (UTC)

Indirect satisfaction. B's place in the favored majority wasn't nearly so secure as B thought it was; that sort of arrogance is what inspired the phrase, "pride goes before a fall."

A had the pleasure of watching B fall, even if A wasn't the one who caused it themselves. One doesn't have to orchestrate another person's misfortune in order to derive satisfaction from it.

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