WHO: Holden, Mhavos, Sawbones + Vance WHAT: Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass. WHEN: Vague timing. WHERE:Orzammar. NOTES: HMU in Discord with any questions.
"I think you are... underestimating the impact of doing nothing."
Holden receives honesty, because once again Mhavos is flattered to be asked.
"Deciding not to do anything at all is still a choice. Upholding the status quo, with its treatment of the Casteless? Or fighting for them, and potentially weakening Orzammar's defenses? Ultimately, we're unlikely to make any real changes, but when one has the opportunity to voice an opinion without reprisal, I find it foolish to set that aside."
A sigh.
"A rather fancy way of saying I don't yet know how I feel."
"I'm not so sure advocating for this dwarf is the same thing as doing nothing." Which is what he wants to do, at least, and what Mhavos had agreed with. "That is voicing an opinion, and there will be consequences for that."
Though what, exactly, is hard to say.
Still. He remembers the war between Earth and Mars, trying not to get involved, and about how well that worked out. The distance from Amazonia to Montana is less than what we have traveled since this conversation started. But that had been his home, his system, the inners' war, a situation he knew and understood. This is something else.
He says, wry, "I'd say not knowing yet is probably the smarter answer. This is too complicated a problem to decide with snap judgments."
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Holden receives honesty, because once again Mhavos is flattered to be asked.
"Deciding not to do anything at all is still a choice. Upholding the status quo, with its treatment of the Casteless? Or fighting for them, and potentially weakening Orzammar's defenses? Ultimately, we're unlikely to make any real changes, but when one has the opportunity to voice an opinion without reprisal, I find it foolish to set that aside."
A sigh.
"A rather fancy way of saying I don't yet know how I feel."
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Though what, exactly, is hard to say.
Still. He remembers the war between Earth and Mars, trying not to get involved, and about how well that worked out. The distance from Amazonia to Montana is less than what we have traveled since this conversation started. But that had been his home, his system, the inners' war, a situation he knew and understood. This is something else.
He says, wry, "I'd say not knowing yet is probably the smarter answer. This is too complicated a problem to decide with snap judgments."
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