[ It does. This entire display feels like horseshit, and it isn't only to do with the queen. ] Prime Minister's not much better.
[ They both have ties to the military, which subsequently means the support of the army. That's always where it lies—whether or not your soldiers will stay loyal to you. It's why Cintra held firm for so long. Whether Calanthe was a good queen or not is highly debatable, but she was undeniably an effective commander. Solvunn's Council head is the only one without open links to any fighting force. Not that it grants any comfort. There's a reason Solvunn has been included in these gestures of peace—and it's because both Thorne and the Free Cities consider their little commune enough of a potential threat they can't be ignored.
He shifts his gaze over. Julie had asked him the same. He appreciates the concern, he does. It's just. ]
Mmh. [ Sure. For the most part. He's ventured about, he's held that damn orb because why the fuck not, he's got far too much goat cheese as a result of inadvertently attending to Solvunn's children by letting them pull on his hair for few hours. He's fine. (He's also slept a total of four hours since they arrived.) He came here for a reason and he intends to see it through. ] I spoke to Amos. About Yennefer, if she were to...
[ Go there. If. Not when. Because she's yet to make any official move. He knows if she had, she would have come to tell him. But she hasn't, and she still wears Thorne's sigil every time he glimpses her. He's alluded only vaguely to this, has not told Sam exactly what happened between them. What she did. It feels so fucking impossible to get into, even if he were to want to. ]
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[ They both have ties to the military, which subsequently means the support of the army. That's always where it lies—whether or not your soldiers will stay loyal to you. It's why Cintra held firm for so long. Whether Calanthe was a good queen or not is highly debatable, but she was undeniably an effective commander. Solvunn's Council head is the only one without open links to any fighting force. Not that it grants any comfort. There's a reason Solvunn has been included in these gestures of peace—and it's because both Thorne and the Free Cities consider their little commune enough of a potential threat they can't be ignored.
He shifts his gaze over. Julie had asked him the same. He appreciates the concern, he does. It's just. ]
Mmh. [ Sure. For the most part. He's ventured about, he's held that damn orb because why the fuck not, he's got far too much goat cheese as a result of inadvertently attending to Solvunn's children by letting them pull on his hair for few hours. He's fine. (He's also slept a total of four hours since they arrived.) He came here for a reason and he intends to see it through. ] I spoke to Amos. About Yennefer, if she were to...
[ Go there. If. Not when. Because she's yet to make any official move. He knows if she had, she would have come to tell him. But she hasn't, and she still wears Thorne's sigil every time he glimpses her. He's alluded only vaguely to this, has not told Sam exactly what happened between them. What she did. It feels so fucking impossible to get into, even if he were to want to. ]