Marcus' assessment carries weight, yes, but Derrica knows this about Bastien: he doesn't mean her any harm.
The difficulty is that he stands very close to someone she doesn't trust, yes, but also—
He has no magic. She has never heard him to raise his voice one way or the other on the crystals or in her company. He is easy company, and she knows him to be kind, but she doesn't know anything about the viewpoints he holds.
"I haven't needed to talk about these things very often. Mages understand it well enough without speaking of it."
Even when Marcus or Kostos had asked, it had been with a fundamental baseline. Any answer she gave built upon it.
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Marcus' assessment carries weight, yes, but Derrica knows this about Bastien: he doesn't mean her any harm.
The difficulty is that he stands very close to someone she doesn't trust, yes, but also—
He has no magic. She has never heard him to raise his voice one way or the other on the crystals or in her company. He is easy company, and she knows him to be kind, but she doesn't know anything about the viewpoints he holds.
"I haven't needed to talk about these things very often. Mages understand it well enough without speaking of it."
Even when Marcus or Kostos had asked, it had been with a fundamental baseline. Any answer she gave built upon it.
"And I'm not sure what you really want to know."