My guiding words: consent, attentiveness, respect, discipline, training, transparency. You will only grow at my side if you bring a genuine desire to learn. I will watch you flourish with satisfaction, like a small flower pushing through asphalt: close to the ground and watered by dogs, but delicious to observe from above.
I hold as much tenderness as contempt for little ones. I have no doubt about my stature; it is that stature one venerates, incidentally. I enjoy caressing one cheek before slapping the other. My words can be as cruel as my orders, when I am not using them to amuse myself at your expense. What I mean is: my words can grind you down just as surely as my thighs. But they must be earned. Everything must be earned, here.If you obey without failing, if you dig within yourself to find the purest and most transparent reserve of devotion, you will earn my encouragements and my severe benevolence, just enough to pull you a little deeper. We will find a use for you, you'll see.
Fair warning: you are not knocking at the right door if you seek pain without cause, punishment without fault, in short: gratuitous violence. I can be severe, uncompromising, brutal, but it will always be for your good. You know this, don't you?
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