[ He's momentarily surprised that Wysteria believes in that stuff - but, well, no, this is going well, he's not going to pause to question any of it. ]
Just so. And it is particularly rank, given that she's certainly made no effort to learn about the customs here.
Well of course not. We—you, rather—are all backwater barbarians who have only just learned to rub two sticks together to make fire. There is hardly a scrap of culture or intelligence between us.
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I tell you, I have been trying to convince myself that I ought to resume my project of surveying Rifters when first they arrive but she makes it very difficult to wish to go back in fill in the gaps with everyone I'd missed while I was indisposed.
Quite so. And it must be maddening for you. Rifters have made something of a respectable name for themselves at this point - but then people like this show up to spoil it.
I would hope that anyone with any sense of good judgement whatsoever would recognize that there are dreadful examples of nearly every type of person everywhere.
Her hair that looks like it was sheared off with a blunt knife?
[Now that's just mean, Wysteria, and put about as petulantly as is possible.]
You ought to consider another round of etiquette classes. It's high time, and with the war front having moved so close it's only more likely that we'll soon be expected to deal with all manner of people more local to Kirkwall than usual rather than far flung Orlesians who might never trip over all our local gossip.
And that looks like she was so desperate to be a blonde that she soaked her head in lye. I've seen more competent dye-jobs amongst cut-rate Antivan mummers.
[ Byerly takes quite a lot of pleasure in being mean, and feels no shame at all. ]
I shudder to imagine her at a class like that. She'd likely fall to crying at our wretched tyranny, forcing her to do something so base.
Madam de Fonce. How dare you even imply we might send her on assignment! She deserves to be here, fed, clothed and housed - and the mere thought that we might ask anything in return is offensive!
You know, somehow I suspect she would find some excuse as to how that was simply impossible. Or she'd have some paranoid fit about how we'd keep her here regardless. Anything to keep sopping up our charity.
Well if she's really so much better and cleverer than everyone else here, she ought to have no issue discovering some alternate method by which to run off and do whatever it is she pleases. But you're right. I strongly suspect that isn't actually her aim.
I think what galls me most is her assumption that anyone would want to kidnap her. I don't mean to be cruel [ hahahaha yes he does ] but don't those who suffer kidnapping typically have something to offer to their kidnappers? Why, if you assumed you'd been kidnapped, there would be some rational basis for that. But she's neither clever nor pleasant.
Well, [with GREAT authority, as someone twice (briefly) captured, not counting certain dreamt scenarios.] Sometimes one is held hostage simply on account of convenience.
But yes, I see your point. Perhaps she's attempting to hide some useful skill with all this apparent uselessness and poor temper that she thinks she might be exploited for if we were to know.
[Wait, that's almost a charitable assessment.]
—In which case she is doing a fine job of it, as I can think of no other person I would care to spend an hour with less.
I'm being no such thing! I said, didn't I—that even if she were right on those points that she would still be the most dreadful member of the whole company!
Do we even count her as such? A proper member of Riftwatch, I mean.
It seems unfair that any Rifter must be accounted for by the rest of us simply because they're Rifters. Or rather, that they may go about and do whatever they please without any care for how to reflects on the rest of the Gallows and we can do nothing to stop them without being accused of all sorts of terrible things.
I imagine no one would take very kindly to being told they must join in Riftwach's work or else be confined to the Gallows indefinitely so as not to embarrass or endanger the whole company.
[Towers aren't very popular these days, you know.]
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Just so. And it is particularly rank, given that she's certainly made no effort to learn about the customs here.
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[EYEROLL.]
I tell you, I have been trying to convince myself that I ought to resume my project of surveying Rifters when first they arrive but she makes it very difficult to wish to go back in fill in the gaps with everyone I'd missed while I was indisposed.
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—But, yes. It's embarrassing.
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[Now that's just mean, Wysteria, and put about as petulantly as is possible.]
You ought to consider another round of etiquette classes. It's high time, and with the war front having moved so close it's only more likely that we'll soon be expected to deal with all manner of people more local to Kirkwall than usual rather than far flung Orlesians who might never trip over all our local gossip.
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[ Byerly takes quite a lot of pleasure in being mean, and feels no shame at all. ]
I shudder to imagine her at a class like that. She'd likely fall to crying at our wretched tyranny, forcing her to do something so base.
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Well if she's really so much better and cleverer than everyone else here, she ought to have no issue discovering some alternate method by which to run off and do whatever it is she pleases. But you're right. I strongly suspect that isn't actually her aim.
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But yes, I see your point. Perhaps she's attempting to hide some useful skill with all this apparent uselessness and poor temper that she thinks she might be exploited for if we were to know.
[Wait, that's almost a charitable assessment.]
—In which case she is doing a fine job of it, as I can think of no other person I would care to spend an hour with less.
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Do we even count her as such? A proper member of Riftwatch, I mean.
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Ye-e-e-es. We do. We cannot, alas, pick the fleas from our skin; they are part of the greater organism.
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I imagine no one would take very kindly to being told they must join in Riftwach's work or else be confined to the Gallows indefinitely so as not to embarrass or endanger the whole company.
[Towers aren't very popular these days, you know.]