Oh, you say you have to fall apart to really be someone
If looks could kill, she'd have been dust long before Deimos ever set foot on Caido. His disapproval mattered very little to her, she realized, and almost laughed in his face. Luckily she managed to hold it back.
"No? What time, then? What place? I disagree. There was every need to fight, if only to prove a point. So far we've already yielded two regions, a swamp and a meeting to the Family. What's the next thing you're going to offer up? A person? Maybe a city. And then there will be another, and another, and soon the whole of Caido will be overrun and Dahlia will be standing in your office, asking if you're sure you didn't get her invitation right. I suppose then it's alright to fight. There would be nowhere left to retreat to at that point."
The idea that anyone would be out of harm's way if Maea Valair just kept her mouth shut was laughable. And the prompt to have her go challenge Dahlia... Gods, don't get her started. "She could still kill us all. She probably will, given enough time. I'm not looking to die, if that's what you think. I just refuse to give in without at least trying to fight when she comes into my home like she owns it. She does not." Not yet, at least. As Danta had pointed out, there was chicken shit they could do about it if she really did come. Was she supposed to just lie down and give up, then? No. Fuck no.
"No? What time, then? What place? I disagree. There was every need to fight, if only to prove a point. So far we've already yielded two regions, a swamp and a meeting to the Family. What's the next thing you're going to offer up? A person? Maybe a city. And then there will be another, and another, and soon the whole of Caido will be overrun and Dahlia will be standing in your office, asking if you're sure you didn't get her invitation right. I suppose then it's alright to fight. There would be nowhere left to retreat to at that point."
The idea that anyone would be out of harm's way if Maea Valair just kept her mouth shut was laughable. And the prompt to have her go challenge Dahlia... Gods, don't get her started. "She could still kill us all. She probably will, given enough time. I'm not looking to die, if that's what you think. I just refuse to give in without at least trying to fight when she comes into my home like she owns it. She does not." Not yet, at least. As Danta had pointed out, there was chicken shit they could do about it if she really did come. Was she supposed to just lie down and give up, then? No. Fuck no.
