There's matters of opinion, and then matters of facts. Vivienne would quite prefer that no one be mentoring the young who were going to fill their heads with anti-Circle bile. She is, however, all too aware that such a requirement in her opinion is quite unlikely to be the standard in these days. Not until the Circles are rightly restored as they were meant to be. That is her opinion. Facts have a different impact and it is these which she addresses.
"In the Circle, no one would be asked to mentor the apprentices until they had passed their Harrowing. We now find ourselves in a position not to enforce that as a minimum standard of magical proficiency. My greater concern is that our children have survived the most horrific of times and are frightened. And that a great many of the men and women who should have been available to them for solace and guidance have been far too busy making their malcontent known to pause and consider how to aid anyone but themselves."
She does not hold a terribly high opinion of the rebel mages, clearly. But there is a point there. Anyone too absorbed with their burning need to violently throw off shackles -perceived or otherwise- to consider people dependent on them, cannot be trusted in a place of responsibility.
"If we are to talk qualifications, we need upstanding men and women who are capable of seeing past their own nose, with a respectable demonstration of their own magical capabilities, and a delicate hand dealing with our traumatized youth."
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"In the Circle, no one would be asked to mentor the apprentices until they had passed their Harrowing. We now find ourselves in a position not to enforce that as a minimum standard of magical proficiency. My greater concern is that our children have survived the most horrific of times and are frightened. And that a great many of the men and women who should have been available to them for solace and guidance have been far too busy making their malcontent known to pause and consider how to aid anyone but themselves."
She does not hold a terribly high opinion of the rebel mages, clearly. But there is a point there. Anyone too absorbed with their burning need to violently throw off shackles -perceived or otherwise- to consider people dependent on them, cannot be trusted in a place of responsibility.
"If we are to talk qualifications, we need upstanding men and women who are capable of seeing past their own nose, with a respectable demonstration of their own magical capabilities, and a delicate hand dealing with our traumatized youth."