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FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Thranduil
RECIPIENT: All characters on the Galicia and the Walrus.
WHAT: DONT BE THAT BITCH.
WHEN: During the boat flight from Minrathous.
WHERE: Boats, Ocean.
NOTES: oooh god I’m on my phone don’t make me link to thing.

Those on the Galicia saw it first hand, but to those on the Walrus, the Venatori abroad the warship pursuing us have made us an offer of safe passage in exchange for the currently incapacitated Archon Radonis, who is aboard.

I would hope [ thranduil’s voice low and dangerous. ] that no one need reminding that the Venatori are liars and their promises worth nothing.

[ but there’s one in every batch who might think first of saving their own skin, and that’s why thranduil is hanging out with the (unconscious) radonis and his friend, a knife. ]

And I would think that we would far prefer to strike fear into the hearts of the Venatori after the ordeal we were put through in Minrathous, with some of our comrades still missing and presumed captured, rather than simper and beg their mercy.

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I doubt any of the slave class of Tevinter would say the same.

[ the 'he's our ally'. having been a slave of tevinter, it's something he can say with confidence. just because a man was a ruler, it doesn't mean he should continue to be. ]

I know that. I hate what these people do, and if we were here to free the slaves I'd be ther by your side.

[ That's just not the mission, even if it ought to be. ]

But he's the lesser evil here. At least for now.

One of the many traps men craft is insisting there are only two ways to a thing, then soothe you into calling one more fair.

[ there's no real heat of argument in anything he's saying about the archon here. he doesn't believe it matters as much as either say, and doubts anyone gives a hot shit what he thinks besides. just making commentary. ]

Two division heads have spoken on it. They'll keep him alive, so long as no one seeks to be disavowed from the Inquisition. [ WHICH, FLINT MIGHT, FOR THIS CHANCE. but that's another problem no one else but he and Silver need to be concerned about. ]

We only have the choice that's before us, Captain. Nothing about this world is fair, I don't need to have been born here to know that.

[ There's more than one kind of slavery. Thedas has been very creative about it, and many of those quick to judge Tevinter would be more than glad to see Circles return. Personally Aro likes to judge them both equally. He'd no more kill the Archon than he would raze the Chantry. More violence cannot be the answer.

Not that he expects to find much agreement on that front here. ]

Anyway, none of this will matter if we don't get him on board.