04-29-2015, 09:10 PM
Oh boy, things were getting a little heated. Zilpah throws a glance to her Ima and decides to take her cues from her and Kreios, despite having a higher rank. She does not like squabbles, and finds that there is confusion amongst the ranks, which she also doesn’t like. Add to it the magic of seeing Scorch’s words coming from a hologram and Zilpah’s lips twist into her thinking frown.
Hmm… this would take a bit of thought.
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Yael listens quietly until some clarification is needed. She had done her duty (potentially overstepping it at some point) at the meeting, stepping in where experience had been called for, but trying to let the new Queens do most of the talking. That’s how she had intended this meeting to be, to try and allow herself to fade into the background and let the rest of the kingdom turn to Camrynn and Pevensie.
Alas, it cannot always be so; she is still the Ambassador, due to Lucrezia’s disappearance. And so she interjects.
“I t’ink… eef vhat I am xearing is correct, eet ees Scorch ve xaf a problem vit, not ze Amazons, yes? She… schemes, but ees not evil, not een ze vay t’at murder ees evil….” Not in the way that Elite was evil, she means. That warranted war and broken treaties. Does this? “So ze kestyon truly ees vether ze Amazons are more t’an t’ere Keen. Is ze relationship ve xaf had for so long vit t’em vert dealing vit xer? Or ees eet bigger t’an xer? I t’ink eef Rhy xad spoken during ze meeting, ze outcome vould xaf been different, ve vould xaf valked avay vit a better feeling.” She pauses, and Zilpah finally speaks up.
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“Wait a minute. I was trying to see how Scorch’s offer is different from the alliance we have with them now. And I don’t really think it is. They’re asking for unconditional support, like a family is supposed to, but that’s it, right? I think she’s just still a little confused about Camrynn’s part in it. And…” she pauses, crinkling her nose a bit. “What if what’s best for us isn’t what’s best for them? That’s the only part I’m concerned about. So… I think we should stick with the alliance and say no to sister-kingdoms.”
She bobs her head up and down emphatically, and finishes it with, “They are important, but they shouldn’t come before what’s best for us, you know? And would they make a decision that was better for us than for them? I don’t think so.”
She didn’t know Scorch, but she thinks that if given the choice between doing something that was best for Sawflesh and Zale, or compromising to help someone else, that her loved ones would win out. That’s the way it always was.
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Yael listens to her daughter mull things out and cannot help but smile at the way she grasps the truth of the matter. It isn’t that big of a deal, but it is clear that she is growing up (perhaps a few years too late, but who’s counting?).
“Yes, I vote for an alliance too.”
Hmm… this would take a bit of thought.
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Yael listens quietly until some clarification is needed. She had done her duty (potentially overstepping it at some point) at the meeting, stepping in where experience had been called for, but trying to let the new Queens do most of the talking. That’s how she had intended this meeting to be, to try and allow herself to fade into the background and let the rest of the kingdom turn to Camrynn and Pevensie.
Alas, it cannot always be so; she is still the Ambassador, due to Lucrezia’s disappearance. And so she interjects.
“I t’ink… eef vhat I am xearing is correct, eet ees Scorch ve xaf a problem vit, not ze Amazons, yes? She… schemes, but ees not evil, not een ze vay t’at murder ees evil….” Not in the way that Elite was evil, she means. That warranted war and broken treaties. Does this? “So ze kestyon truly ees vether ze Amazons are more t’an t’ere Keen. Is ze relationship ve xaf had for so long vit t’em vert dealing vit xer? Or ees eet bigger t’an xer? I t’ink eef Rhy xad spoken during ze meeting, ze outcome vould xaf been different, ve vould xaf valked avay vit a better feeling.” She pauses, and Zilpah finally speaks up.
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“Wait a minute. I was trying to see how Scorch’s offer is different from the alliance we have with them now. And I don’t really think it is. They’re asking for unconditional support, like a family is supposed to, but that’s it, right? I think she’s just still a little confused about Camrynn’s part in it. And…” she pauses, crinkling her nose a bit. “What if what’s best for us isn’t what’s best for them? That’s the only part I’m concerned about. So… I think we should stick with the alliance and say no to sister-kingdoms.”
She bobs her head up and down emphatically, and finishes it with, “They are important, but they shouldn’t come before what’s best for us, you know? And would they make a decision that was better for us than for them? I don’t think so.”
She didn’t know Scorch, but she thinks that if given the choice between doing something that was best for Sawflesh and Zale, or compromising to help someone else, that her loved ones would win out. That’s the way it always was.
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Yael listens to her daughter mull things out and cannot help but smile at the way she grasps the truth of the matter. It isn’t that big of a deal, but it is clear that she is growing up (perhaps a few years too late, but who’s counting?).
“Yes, I vote for an alliance too.”