( The sound that escapes her doesn't quite make it to being an incredulous exhale. )
It doesn't matter if they came to save living individuals, or the shards. The material point is that you lived because they came to your rescue. You have all been in their good graces and living at their expense for years - it's surprising that it went this long before phylacteries for rifters were proposed, when people in proclaiming great powers and outrage. This isn't just about you personally, or your actions, but all the rifters together.
( She smiles, and there is a suggestion, finally, of the Merchant Princess that lies beneath the smiles and jokes, the ice and edges of knives. )
You berate me, mages, and you blame humanity time and time again. Everyone else is to blame, whether for their actions or lack of them. You question our nerve, you scorn diplomacy, but you know nothing of us. You cannot accuse others of arrogance and folly so liberally without being guilty of it yourself.
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It doesn't matter if they came to save living individuals, or the shards. The material point is that you lived because they came to your rescue. You have all been in their good graces and living at their expense for years - it's surprising that it went this long before phylacteries for rifters were proposed, when people in proclaiming great powers and outrage. This isn't just about you personally, or your actions, but all the rifters together.
( She smiles, and there is a suggestion, finally, of the Merchant Princess that lies beneath the smiles and jokes, the ice and edges of knives. )
You berate me, mages, and you blame humanity time and time again. Everyone else is to blame, whether for their actions or lack of them. You question our nerve, you scorn diplomacy, but you know nothing of us. You cannot accuse others of arrogance and folly so liberally without being guilty of it yourself.