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Abadar uses a helm of opposite alignment on Hagan and a bad time is had by all
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"I don't think we'll run out of money or have a war."

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"That's good.

"Read one of the histories."

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"Did you like it?"

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"It was - interesting, in places. Not what I'd choose to read for myself, but probably good stuff to know, I guess."

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"Well, you did choose to read it."

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" - uh, yes? You gave it to me."

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"So I don't know what you mean you wouldn't have chosen to read it."

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" - if I had found it in a library I probably wouldn't have sat down with it. I guess."

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"Oh. Okay."

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"Sorry.

"I figure I'll work through the Taldane part of the library in maybe a month. So - that should keep me from getting too bored for a while, anyway."

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"That's good. You should keep busy. It's good for you."

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"Yeah. I know."

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"You know lots of things. So smart. You must be mad Abadar didn't put you in charge."

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She looks - kind of mildly shocked.

 

"Do - do you want me to pretend that I think keeping busy is bad for me, or - "

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" - no?"

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" - no, I'm not mad that Abadar didn't put me in charge."

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"Huh. Why not?"

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She's doing the silent crying thing again. She hates that, hates how sudden it is, hates that it makes her look like even more of an idiot. Her head has caught on, now, that it wasn't an insult, but her heart is still trying to recover from the pain of thinking that he might mock her for claiming to know anything at all.

"Because - because nobody would listen to me? Because I wouldn't have any idea what I was doing? Because I'm not descended from the Osirian royal family, because I'm not Osirian at all, because I don't even speak Osirian yet? Because I don't know most of your laws? Because watching people prostrate themselves before their rulers makes me sad? Because I don't even know for sure if I can have children? I'm - I'm not jealous of you, Hagan, I just - thought that if I asked about policy at all then maybe we could have an actual conversation, because if we only ever talk about my life there won't be anything to say - "

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" - Calm Emotions."

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- huh.

Calm emotions is weird. It takes the tears a few seconds to catch on to the fact that nothing is wrong, but they do. She wipes them away.

"Sorry. I - interpreted that wrong."

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"I know you're smarter than me, Korva. Maybe someday they'll work out the crown and that won't be true anymore, but the guy I talked to wasn't wildly optimistic."

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"I wasn't making any claims about being smarter than you. I thought you were mocking me for claiming to know something. Because you didn't think I should do that."

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Patpatpat. "I think you should do that."

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"Okay. I'll try to forget it, then."

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"I mean, I meant it. Just, not as some sort of complicated insult."

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