[ In answer, Bastien acquires a faint (non-literal) glow, hooks his finger against By’s neck as if through a collar, and mimes tugging at it to bring him closer for a kiss.
He knows he’s still sharing with duty and honor and la cruelle bonne chose à faire, and to some extent always will be. But it’s nice to be in the race. ]
The war does matter,
[ is an odd thing for a man who bolted from it immediately upon By’s death, maybe—but By isn’t why he’s here so much as how he’s here, how he stands the day to day misery of it, and his departure was less the smooth exit of someone who no longer saw the benefit than it was the Bard-disguised frantic exit of a wounded animal who only wants to get away from what hurts. ]
There’s no better life for anyone— [ except mages, maybe ] —if they win. You could help people be a little less oppressed, maybe, but they would still be worse off than when we started. And I don’t want to write the kind of things that Corypheus’s cult would enjoy reading.
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Date: 2023-09-20 02:35 am (UTC)He knows he’s still sharing with duty and honor and la cruelle bonne chose à faire, and to some extent always will be. But it’s nice to be in the race. ]
The war does matter,
[ is an odd thing for a man who bolted from it immediately upon By’s death, maybe—but By isn’t why he’s here so much as how he’s here, how he stands the day to day misery of it, and his departure was less the smooth exit of someone who no longer saw the benefit than it was the Bard-disguised frantic exit of a wounded animal who only wants to get away from what hurts. ]
There’s no better life for anyone— [ except mages, maybe ] —if they win. You could help people be a little less oppressed, maybe, but they would still be worse off than when we started. And I don’t want to write the kind of things that Corypheus’s cult would enjoy reading.