Patient, Winifred listens to Estinien's response without the slightest outward indication of disinterest, though the lengthy recounting of how his experience with war has led him to believe in its inevitability and even righteous necessity does very little to impress her.
"If I may offer you some advice?"
She lifts a hand, much like she had to quieten the council chamber, and continues smoothly.
"When you come to a foreign land as a refugee, and are accepted and provided for by a generous people who are accepting a risk in taking responsibility for your care, and ask to speak at a council of their leadership, and at that meeting ask them how you might best strike against their enemies... it might serve you to listen to the answers you are given and respond accordingly. Otherwise, it might seem to those kind and generous people that your offer to assist them in whatever way they deem best is less than sincere, and more likely an attempt to coerce them into assisting you."
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"If I may offer you some advice?"
She lifts a hand, much like she had to quieten the council chamber, and continues smoothly.
"When you come to a foreign land as a refugee, and are accepted and provided for by a generous people who are accepting a risk in taking responsibility for your care, and ask to speak at a council of their leadership, and at that meeting ask them how you might best strike against their enemies... it might serve you to listen to the answers you are given and respond accordingly. Otherwise, it might seem to those kind and generous people that your offer to assist them in whatever way they deem best is less than sincere, and more likely an attempt to coerce them into assisting you."