[Her smile is amicable and polite, but a little sharp.] I can't tell if you're trying to hedge your bets or just not piss me off. I'm not gonna get angry. I'm asking because Byerly and I do two different kinds of diplomacy, and I wanna know which one you work best with.
[And thus, she resists the urge to reply with a single 'bullshit' and let him squirm. Tempting. But counter-productive.]
Byerly does fancy cakes and parties and saying the right thing to pretty people in perfume. That's not an insult. That shit's hard. Fuck, I can't do it. Maybe you can. I don't know.
I do... I don't know what it's called in Trade. Probably something insulting. I don't care. Diplomacy for me is about negotiating demands, not backing down, but not being a shit about it either. Balance. No tea-parties and flattery. My goals right now are to get the poor on our side, to make us popular in Kirkwall, make the poor little fucks people stuck in the war see us as a force that can help. No tea parties.
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[And thus, she resists the urge to reply with a single 'bullshit' and let him squirm. Tempting. But counter-productive.]
Byerly does fancy cakes and parties and saying the right thing to pretty people in perfume. That's not an insult. That shit's hard. Fuck, I can't do it. Maybe you can. I don't know.
I do... I don't know what it's called in Trade. Probably something insulting. I don't care. Diplomacy for me is about negotiating demands, not backing down, but not being a shit about it either. Balance. No tea-parties and flattery. My goals right now are to get the poor on our side, to make us popular in Kirkwall, make the poor little fucks people stuck in the war see us as a force that can help. No tea parties.
Am I making sense?