[Antoninus]

This girl had never had any traumatic experiences and came from a loving family background, but she was all over me. Her seduction technique was pretty sophisticated, too. She was 12.

Unless you knew her for her whole life and were with her at every moment, you can't know what traumatic experiences she had or didn't have.

Based on what you're telling me, I can almost guarantee you that she was sexually abused before puberty.

[Capriole]

I don't know. Anything is possible. She was also one of the most nasty, devious, corrupt people you can imagine, a real manipulator from early childhood.

Do you believe that there is such a thing as a bad seed, a person born with a predisposition to wickedness? I am undecided, but surely all of us have met people who seemed from earliest childhood to be inclined to lying, cheating, stealing, perverse behavior of all sorts--the sociopaths who lack normal human feelings and care only for their own stimulation. Sometimes I think back to people like this and question whether they were born with something wrong.