MORGAN
Neron's relative calm (though she did catch the widening of his eyes) was soothing enough to set Morgan back into her professional mindset. Clearing her throat, she frowned as she tried to order events in her head well enough to explain them back to Neron, when she was still reeling from everything Deimos had said herself.
"He came in here about an hour ago and told me that he had set fire to a building in Torchline, with his magic. That he had done it for Hotaru, because of..." Morgan applied heavy quote mark fingers for the next sentence: "What Sunjata had done to her." She really had no idea what that could be. "I suspect that was his main motivation, but he then tried to excuse himself by asserting there is a Spy Ring run out of that building, and that there's one in the Kraai." Here she paused and raised an eyebrow, sure Neron would have something to say about that.
Pinching her nose between her thumb and finger, she leaned down on the desk. "He acted violently against another leader. Had this been genuinely about the Spy Ring, I would have wanted him to speak to me before taking such action. This kind of...petty, childish impulsiveness is not what I look for in my councilmen. I...am shocked, honestly, because Deimos has always seemed so grounded." The only thing she could imagine was that he had to be in love with Hotaru, or somehow in debt to her; why else would he throw away his whole life?
"I had no choice but to remove him. ...I hope I did the right thing." Normally she would not voice the doubt, but Neron knew there was a person beneath the ice cold stare.
"He came in here about an hour ago and told me that he had set fire to a building in Torchline, with his magic. That he had done it for Hotaru, because of..." Morgan applied heavy quote mark fingers for the next sentence: "What Sunjata had done to her." She really had no idea what that could be. "I suspect that was his main motivation, but he then tried to excuse himself by asserting there is a Spy Ring run out of that building, and that there's one in the Kraai." Here she paused and raised an eyebrow, sure Neron would have something to say about that.
Pinching her nose between her thumb and finger, she leaned down on the desk. "He acted violently against another leader. Had this been genuinely about the Spy Ring, I would have wanted him to speak to me before taking such action. This kind of...petty, childish impulsiveness is not what I look for in my councilmen. I...am shocked, honestly, because Deimos has always seemed so grounded." The only thing she could imagine was that he had to be in love with Hotaru, or somehow in debt to her; why else would he throw away his whole life?
"I had no choice but to remove him. ...I hope I did the right thing." Normally she would not voice the doubt, but Neron knew there was a person beneath the ice cold stare.
And time goes quicker
Between the two of us
Between the two of us
