All the more reason to plea grace if so, for I am a man of difficult temperament, and I suffered no injury beyond pride.
[This, perhaps predictably, is said objectively. He's lived too long in his role as Judge, jury, executioner, and so on and so forth to let bias sink its claws into his verdicts unless they relate to his brother which right now they do not, though what chases it is far, far milder in tone:]
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Date: 2021-04-26 06:00 pm (UTC)[This, perhaps predictably, is said objectively. He's lived too long in his role as Judge, jury, executioner, and so on and so forth to let bias sink its claws into his verdicts
unless they relate to his brother which right now they do not, though what chases it is far, far milder in tone:]As you said, the man is frail in force.