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rowancrowned) wrote2015-03-22 06:02 pm
rowancrowned) wrote2015-03-22 06:02 pm
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[ A pause, hesitant - oh, she loathes this place and its understandings about what is too much, she thinks of Magni and Marcoulf coughing in shock over what she had spent on her spices for a simple meal. Or, literally coughing, in Marcoulf's case, when he'd taken a bite into it. Like she'd served him garam masala raw itself. ] A nobles wedding at least has at least three plays performed and a parade of horses and at least two elephants, to my reckoning, and it wouldn't dare go for a day. [ she sighs, irritated but there isn't much for it. It isn't her wedding after all. ]
Alright, then I will insist on the gifts given to the Chantry for the poorest, but we can forgo the rest.
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[ he translates 'eliphant' to oliphaunt neatly enough, and thinks that legolas would enjoy that. perhaps if his son ever shows the inclination, he would contact lakshmi again, and make arrangements for excess. ]
You are content with your work? We must find meaning here.
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[ As for the rest - there's a noise, and it cannot be called pleased. ]
Meaning? My meaning never changes, neither in my durbar hall, the battlefield or the worst streets of the alienage. [ Bitter, vicious. ]
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[ he knows that class of noise, even if it's one he does not make it himself. ]
Sometimes the best work is done quietly.
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Naturally. I prefer working when it comes to it.
[ Or you know, that no one knows *you* did it? ]
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You have settled into the Thedas way of things?
[ you know, like how they bring in ex addicts to tell kids not to do drugs. ]
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How courteous you are.
[ It's laughed, as quick as her initial bitterness. Snapped away as fast as that. ]
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[ rhetorical, as always.
but she is not an elf, so she does not have to assume her actions will be held as evidence of a rifter's behavior and another groups', too. ]
One does not play chess with backgammon pieces and find sympathy when they are trounced. Do you have any questions left unanswered about why things are done a certain way, or why some matters are not spoken of? My door is open for just such questions.
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[ But there is a sigh. ]
Anything else I fear the trouble it might cause you for my own indulgence and I have no need or want to cause such issues.
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In my optimism, I presume our success against Corypheus and have devoted no small measure of thought of thinking of after, of when there are no more rifts for us to close.
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[ Mild as sunlight. ]
I am glad someone of us has such a hope for Rifters.
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Then I pray you keep that hope alive. For surely the great blessing of mortal men's short lives will keep that dream from them as far as any of these people are concerned for us.
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[ For one moment they could cry out your name, swear you the hope of your people, you could even do for them now as she wished to do for Thranduil. See someone only the greatest happiness.
But night will come, night will always come, and they will turn belly up like cowards. They will sell out their own people for the right price, and so many will die for it. She will not be that fool again, she will not be betrayed again. She will not let other people pay for her naivety, her hopes, her foolishness. Because she had believed something to be true. ] But I learned too long ago that you may give everything of yourself away to the point of starvation, goodwill still will not be something you can always trust.