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[nottame]

[Sometime after the fairies and imps have flitting around noting wishes and providing updates, a locket connection opens to an evening sky and some tree-lining - a Shard-Bearer's on the move someplace, and he doesn't show up onscreen, but his voice is coming from not too high aboce, off to the side, as if he's sitting on the ground and crouching in some.]

What happens at a royal audience? [...is what he asks, with a lightness and earnest curiosity. Not loud, and not with entirely full breath, perhaps, but it's nothing worse than sticking tiredness from traveling.]

Comments

[gordianknots]

Some people here are all for fighting though. I've spoken with them and understand their perspective, unfortunately.

[nottame]

[He's shaking his head to himself on his end - and he's being dead earnest, still not challenging.] What's there to understand? I still don't get it; I know why people have to fight - I don' get why anyone deep down would want to...

[gordianknots]

For some people, it seems fighting is a way of life, enjoyable, and what they're comfortable with. This war suits them, and suits their goals.

[nottame]

They think that...

[Why wouldn't sparring, or hunting, or the times a person needs to fight, or something else be enough for someone with some innate need? Actual desire to fight's got to be the result of - poor experience, poor teaching...]

Like it's just - what they know.

[gordianknots]

Exactly so. [Waver shrugs, he knows that on some microlevel, fighting and being more clever than the next guy is all he knows too.]