[Saint? Ugh. What a shame the title has been ruined forever for him.
Still, all of that sure sounds monstrous enough to be disturbing. That's the sort of thing that gets a person on his bad side quickly. And yet the implication in her words isn't that the acts themselves bother her. No, if anything she's saying she had to act differently because she couldn't have gotten away with those things and had to take a more difficult route. More subtle, more political. But not better for any reason other than that she hadn't been caught and they had.
It's fine. He can keep his cool, he's very good at that. He nods appropriately, smiles politely at her stupid holy epithet as if it pleases him to hear any of this. And truly, if her actions have been good despite her intentions inside, then she can keep doing that all she likes, so long as it stays that way.]
I'm sure your subjects-to-be will appreciate that thoughtfulness. I'm not naive, I know it takes a sort of careful, sometimes shrewd hand to rule a country. But it seems like that's what you have, unlike the heavy-handedness of your alternates.
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Date: 2019-02-26 04:07 am (UTC)Still, all of that sure sounds monstrous enough to be disturbing. That's the sort of thing that gets a person on his bad side quickly. And yet the implication in her words isn't that the acts themselves bother her. No, if anything she's saying she had to act differently because she couldn't have gotten away with those things and had to take a more difficult route. More subtle, more political. But not better for any reason other than that she hadn't been caught and they had.
It's fine. He can keep his cool, he's very good at that. He nods appropriately, smiles politely at her stupid holy epithet as if it pleases him to hear any of this. And truly, if her actions have been good despite her intentions inside, then she can keep doing that all she likes, so long as it stays that way.]
I'm sure your subjects-to-be will appreciate that thoughtfulness. I'm not naive, I know it takes a sort of careful, sometimes shrewd hand to rule a country. But it seems like that's what you have, unlike the heavy-handedness of your alternates.