[closed] I waited for you but I never told you where I was

[overharrowed]

WHO: Julius and Petrana
WHAT: Airing of grievances, inadvertently
WHEN: Slightly forward-dated to sometime after the end of the phylactery discussion
WHERE: Petrana's office
NOTES: No warnings for now

Julius is no stranger to handling a variety of unpleasant events quietly and privately. It's what he prefers, generally, and if it's been a rough few months for him... it's been a rough few months for a lot of people. He hasn't made any particular connection between the stress he's been through and why the results of the discussion over what to request of the Inquisition in regards to the phylacteries rankled him so deeply. It was nothing particularly worse than the discussions that had led up to the rebellion, the arguments almost predictable in their content, if not always in their sources.

In point of fact, Julius hadn't been planning to discuss it, or himself, at all. He'd been hoping to see Petrana back to herself after more time had passed since her recovery. He'd thought dinner might be pleasant, and wine to go with it. (If she wanted to talk business instead, there was plenty of business to go around.)

And yet, despite all his good intentions, he found himself several glasses in and saying, "Of course I don't want to derail the Inqusition's work, anyone who wants that would have left already. Being here in the first place is proof of good faith for more or less any mage who doesn't have an anchor shard, but the people who will see that are probably the people who won't need convincing to smash the things."