[IC Inbox -- Snowblind]

[heavensreader]

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-

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[devoutish]

Yeah, that's true.

[He considers tricking a part of negotiation - not always necessary, but sometimes, they're two sides of the same coin.]

But there's compromise in tricks too, yeah? Both tricks and negotiations, right - they can fail. Even for people like me.

[And he is very curious about what she thinks of that.]

[heavensreader]

[Even for people like him. Kesara is not so young anymore as to think anyone is infallible - with one or two notable exceptions, perhaps. But Alfie is neither, for all that she looks up to him. And she is seasoned to failure, herself. For her it means waiting, biding her time, trying another angle, changing her goals... perhaps that's what he means by compromise.

But for people like him...]

Is that when it's time for the the knives and the guns?

[devoutish]

Sometimes. Yeah, sometimes. Not in every situation, but in some.

[heavensreader]

I don't have those.

[That, she realises, is what she thinks of that. If she had those, she doesn't know what she might do. She's young. She's only ever held a gun once in her life. What does she really know about this power? Who would she be if she did hold it?]

So it doesn't matter to me. I'll do what I can with what I have. Lao Dian says - [always what Lao Dian says lately. Not what Dame Ariel says. She wonders what that means.] Lao Dian says, a hand never shot a gun without a head to aim it.

[devoutish]

Lao Dian is a smart man.

[Seriously, he sounds like Alfie's kind of guy.]

And you're a smart girl, which is often more important than having a weapon, right.