To her ear, it sounds awfully as if Cassiopeia hopes to benefit from their bleeding hearts and better angels, that they might shoulder that burden on her behalf simply because she has asked. Hope that their self-perception as good and just and righteous would not allow them to refrain from extending a hand when she asks for it, knowing to what they would be leaving her.
It is never Petrana's wish to close her hands to those who'd reach. It is not what she wishes, to tell a mage who had rebelled that they have burned too hot and bright and the flames no longer any responsibility but their ownβ
but one must be reasonable. One must be realistic. One must remember one's own responsibilities.
βHer freedom and her independence, and in exchange?β
If it sounds as if she already doubts the value in kind, well. An outpost would be a start. Allegiance would be better. They will be held to account for her actions if they aid her, so better that they have some influence and grip upon them in the first.
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To her ear, it sounds awfully as if Cassiopeia hopes to benefit from their bleeding hearts and better angels, that they might shoulder that burden on her behalf simply because she has asked. Hope that their self-perception as good and just and righteous would not allow them to refrain from extending a hand when she asks for it, knowing to what they would be leaving her.
It is never Petrana's wish to close her hands to those who'd reach. It is not what she wishes, to tell a mage who had rebelled that they have burned too hot and bright and the flames no longer any responsibility but their ownβ
but one must be reasonable. One must be realistic. One must remember one's own responsibilities.
βHer freedom and her independence, and in exchange?β
If it sounds as if she already doubts the value in kind, well. An outpost would be a start. Allegiance would be better. They will be held to account for her actions if they aid her, so better that they have some influence and grip upon them in the first.