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Jan. 7th, 2016 11:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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Date: 2016-08-14 04:25 pm (UTC)[You can't leave her hanging like this, Mr. Solomons, honestly.]
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Date: 2016-08-14 04:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-16 02:41 pm (UTC)[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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Date: 2016-08-16 03:07 pm (UTC)[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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Date: 2016-08-16 03:11 pm (UTC)[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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Date: 2016-08-16 04:11 pm (UTC)[She falls silent. The end of that sentence is horrifying to contemplate.]
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Date: 2016-08-16 04:12 pm (UTC)[It's an encouraging sound. Go on, Kesara.]
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Date: 2016-08-16 04:28 pm (UTC)She is not gracing that thought with a voice. No. She refuses.]
... it's only that it's tiring. And I have other things to do. Important things.
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Date: 2016-08-17 03:21 pm (UTC)I do not think this was a mistake that was unworthy of you.
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Date: 2016-08-17 03:28 pm (UTC)[She says it with a little laugh. But there's something loose about her breathing in it, that says his words have found their mark.]
Maybe - maybe it's one of those mistakes that I need to learn by making. But isn't that a terrible thing to say about a mistake that someone's died for? Duster shouldn't have died to teach me. He wouldn't like to think so.
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Date: 2016-08-17 03:39 pm (UTC)[It's clearly very important to her, but he's never been able to get a concrete explanation of what it is.]
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Date: 2016-08-17 03:50 pm (UTC)Do you know - in your time, Mr. Solomons, is there still the British Empire? Is India still the jewel in the crown?
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Date: 2016-08-17 03:57 pm (UTC)It is, yeah.
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Date: 2016-08-18 01:47 am (UTC)[This, her tone suggests, is tremendously exciting.]
Whoever has the best maps, the hearts of the people there, the markets, that is who will have India. The information, not the soldiers. And that is the Great Game. The war of spies.
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Date: 2016-08-18 01:57 am (UTC)You're not an untrained colt. Yeah? You must know that. You're a two-year-old filly, young but not untested.
And you have learned from this.
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Date: 2016-08-18 02:07 pm (UTC)She will never say this out loud.]
What do you say the lesson is, Mr. Solomons? If it isn't that I shouldn't interfere, and we still don't know how to, to manage the people here?
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Date: 2016-08-18 03:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-08-20 02:03 pm (UTC)So I'll have to do better next time, right? [She sounds resigned, and tries not to sound sullen. She only half succeeds.] But I will. There's a game here too, a small one, and I need to be able to play it well. As well as you do.
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