Kesara Freamon (
heavensreader) wrote2016-01-07 11:50 pm
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Is it worki - oh. Ahem. This is Kesara Freamon. Please leave your message here and I will call back on you as soon as I can.
Wait, is it still - argh, how do I ma-
Wait, is it still - argh, how do I ma-
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[Is she being logical, or only stubborn? It's confused in her own head. There's a fretting fear that keeps her pushing, angry that he isn't giving her the answers she wants...]
That's what I keep thinking. That is how you make people who are different stop fighting. By making them all part of one thing - a regiment, or gang, or expedition.
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[He at least doesn't want to dismiss her ideas without hearing them first.]
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[She'd been hoping he'd have an idea or two. But if this is the challenge, then she is not giving up on it quite yet.]
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[Those are two of the three options. The third is not trying at all.]
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Or you try to get them to think it was all their idea to come under someone's banner. Not me, maybe, but - someone who's better for it than me. Someone older. A man.
[She's not making any proposals. Just saying.]
And then if there isn't loyalty, it's other people's problem too.
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[He sounds a little dry.]
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I've heard that criminals only follow brute strength. But that's ridiculous. The smugglers I travel with, Roksann and Lao Dian... Roksann is much stronger than Lao Dian. She can shoot and fence better than a British officer, and he's a cripple. But when he says to do something, she listens to him because she knows he'll get her what she wants. It's not because he's a good man, either. It's because she knows, when you listen to him, good things happen... and when you don't, bad things do.
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I've told you I was in a war, yeah?
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You did, but, you didn't say anything about your father in it.
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But I was, as a soldier. Not a commander. I did follow a commander; a sergeant. But things were very different there then they are here.
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Why were they so different? I mean - I know we are not at war, but I think, it's a little similar when conditions are so hard and everyone might die at any moment. Isn't it?
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Kesara, tell me - why do you want to do this?
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[You can't leave her hanging like this, Mr. Solomons, honestly.]
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[She echoes his tone exactly, though with a shade more vehemence.]
I'm frightened. I'm not meant to be, since in the Great Game, many times I won't know who is with me or against me. That's how the Game is played! But I don't know and I'm scared. In Serindia I understood men. I knew what to do. Here I don't understand anything. I feel like such a fool sometimes!
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[He's been able to use that to his own advantage, up to a point.]
But it is different, when those people are from places we can't even imagine. It means there's angles that we can't always predict. I do not judge you for being frightened, Kesara. I've seen you keep your head when you need to, and that's the important thing. Yeah? That's when it counts.
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[She isn't speaking entirely to him now. It's a moment of musing, a little morose, and under that, angry. A lot angry.]
I always need to keep my head, Mr. Solomons. It's very tiring. I'm - I'm not so old yet. Not so strong.
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