#debatable!

[[ meme | random sentence starters! ]]

“Am I?” The shopkeeper’s eyebrows chased his fringe, his face a mask of pure naiveté. “Oh, no no no! You must be mistaken – I couldn’t possibly be mixed up in something illegal!” His imagination swiftly tugged a concealing cloak over bodies and banned substances, fraudulent schemes and wantonly disregarded Keep Out signs. It wouldn’t do to discuss such things in front of children, that was the conventional wisdom. 

Then again… he’d never leaned on dogma; he’d long ago embraced the grey… and – when it came to the young and impressionable, who saw the world in black and white – he believed in gently guiding them to appreciate nuance. “But – hypothetically–”