At least now that they've half given up on schools the education committee is less fighty. Duller, and less important, and kind of depressing, but libraries are something, and they mean the books - well, a tiny fraction of the books, but enough to make copies from - will be there, if the schools ever start up again, or people want to start up ones that charge money.
Not the most important fight, anymore. She catches Dolor on the way out, into the hallway. "Delegate Rado, do you have a minute?"
"Good. I know we have been disagreeing about almost everything that's come up in this committee, but I think all the points you've made have been very smart and reasonable. Some of the non-nobles at the convention are getting together at a room in a tavern tonight to talk about what kinds of priorities we might share, or what issues some of us don't care about or haven't thought about, but would be willing to help each other out on. The nobles are doing a ton of lining up their speeches before their floor fights, and they already know what their allies and enemies want. I think if the rest of us want to get anything important done here, we're going to need to talk to each other beforehand, too. And I think you should come."
Huh, that's not where she'd been expecting this to go at all. She hasn't missed that the nobles are doing that, of course, but she also hasn't missed the fact that when it comes down to it she finds she agrees with them a good deal more than she does Tallandria. On the other hand... she really does have a difficult political proposal she needs to get through the convention, and from how fights on the floor have been going it seems clear just not making enemies she can't afford isn't going to cut it. She just needs to make sure she doesn't lose more votes than she picks up.
"I'm not sure we'll find much more common ground than we have already, but I suppose it's worth trying." If nothing else to find places where Tallandria cares more about getting it through than she does about stopping it, and perhaps which fights she can't win and shouldn't waste her efforts attempting. "What time is it scheduled for, just after the convention lets out?"
"A little after, I think, probably going through dinner and potentially pretty late, though you don't have to stay the whole time. It's the Kortos tavern, right by here. I wouldn't be so sure there isn't anything, I'm finding there are a lot of things I haven't thought about. I'll see you there?"
"Yes, you will."
She doesn't want to make a show about openly going there until she's sure it's not a way to force her to fall in by publicly tarring her as a radical, say, but she's pretty sure Tallandria knows her response to that would be spite and not compliance so she doesn't really expect it.
That seems like it would be really unhelpful. Not that people definitely aren't going to tar them all as radicals, but hey, they only way to prevent that is to figure out some reasonable fights for the commons to pick, and some responsible people to fight them with. And she really does think there are things she's missing.
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