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[Darras huffs an incredulous sort of laugh.]
This talk. Monsters, both of you. I can't believe I like you both as much as I do. Yseult a little more, of course-- [Wife, he acknowledges this silently by tipping his wine glass in her direction in a sort of salute.] --but even so. Got to be watching my back with you. Her for a staged accident and you for plans to be running away together.
Just break their hearts normally. What's wrong with that.
This talk. Monsters, both of you. I can't believe I like you both as much as I do. Yseult a little more, of course-- [Wife, he acknowledges this silently by tipping his wine glass in her direction in a sort of salute.] --but even so. Got to be watching my back with you. Her for a staged accident and you for plans to be running away together.
Just break their hearts normally. What's wrong with that.
[ He winks, at plans to be running away together, with shamelessness rooted in certainty he won’t be taken seriously and forced to fight Yseult. ]
Breaking hearts normally takes time, to be convincing. Going from devotion to desertion overnight—half of them will think it is something they can fix if they follow you.
[ He pauses with his wine at his mouth. ]
Perhaps you could think of it as emotional plunder.
[ Logical analogy? No, not really. But they’re all monsters here, is the point. Attractive ones. ]
Breaking hearts normally takes time, to be convincing. Going from devotion to desertion overnight—half of them will think it is something they can fix if they follow you.
[ He pauses with his wine at his mouth. ]
Perhaps you could think of it as emotional plunder.
[ Logical analogy? No, not really. But they’re all monsters here, is the point. Attractive ones. ]
[ She doesn't mind; good practice. Maybe they'll speak only Orlesian from now on. Her accent is upper-middle-class Val Royeaux, and just the slightest bit rusty to a trained ear. ]
Do you think we should give them a class on picking locks and cuffs before we test them? The ones who aren't part of Scouting.
Do you think we should give them a class on picking locks and cuffs before we test them? The ones who aren't part of Scouting.
[ He hops a step or two up the socioeconomic ladder to match where she's aiming without pausing, for at least as long as the rust lingers. ]
Not a bad idea. It's demoralizing, you know, getting thrown into something you do not even know how to begin to approach. Give them a class after and they might not be in very good moods.
Not a bad idea. It's demoralizing, you know, getting thrown into something you do not even know how to begin to approach. Give them a class after and they might not be in very good moods.
When are they ever? They might be more motivated to take it seriously.
[ A perennial problem he might have noticed from his own attempts at training them in useful skills. ]
But I suppose it's a better test if we give them at least some knowledge. And then we may know better how to adapt the test to their level of skill.
[ A perennial problem he might have noticed from his own attempts at training them in useful skills. ]
But I suppose it's a better test if we give them at least some knowledge. And then we may know better how to adapt the test to their level of skill.
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