ROANA
"Well, we can have a less tense conversation than before. When she isn't blighted and attacking my children." she said with a small shrug. It was a little win but still an improvement from how things had been between them. But his question about Wessex's motives made her shrug as well, as she shook her head. "I don't know, it's shiny and she wanted it, I guess. She came up on my from behind and demanded it out of the blue, I'd never met her before." she said. It had really been a glorified mugging with the threat to her children being the icing on the cake.
"Life, death, and everything in between." she told him. "Its all rather philosophical, but I would much rather serve that sort of greater purpose than that of a monarch's whims. I've spent the majority of my life doing just that and for what? A regiment's worth of dead soldiers in a land I will never see again pursuing success in an endless war because we don't like that others have sovereignty?" she said, brows furrowing. "At least in this, I can see the higher purpose. It is not for the benefit of any one nation, but for the benefit of all."
"Life, death, and everything in between." she told him. "Its all rather philosophical, but I would much rather serve that sort of greater purpose than that of a monarch's whims. I've spent the majority of my life doing just that and for what? A regiment's worth of dead soldiers in a land I will never see again pursuing success in an endless war because we don't like that others have sovereignty?" she said, brows furrowing. "At least in this, I can see the higher purpose. It is not for the benefit of any one nation, but for the benefit of all."
I hate to break it to ya, babe
but I'm not drowning
there's no one here to save
