For every joy, there is a price to be paid.
The only thing that is humiliating is helplessness.
ABASI
As Loren sipped his tea Abasi waited in suspense, waiting to see what it was he would reveal. When he started with the fact he had come from an old family, it felt rather like an anti-climax, something Abasi was already well aware of...but for the moment he stayed quiet, simply nodded to encourage him to keep going, drinking his own tea.
He could tell, from the way that Loren talked of it, that he considered the binding to the crown a bad thing. From Abasi's perspective though, it was not too dissimilar from the expected loyalty to the God-like pharaoh in his home; though given that cultural differences and arguments had begun this discomfort he did not mention that. Perhaps the important thing was that it was something Loren disliked.
Though as the Launceleyn went on, Abasi began to understand more. Even as his mind, steeped as it was in the rules of a system devoted to hierarchical unfairness, fought to provide rationalisations, he felt something in his chest tighten with a pain. Perhaps it was his connection to Loren that allowed him the more emotional viewpoint. Regardless of what it was, he found himself only nodding slowly to show he was listening.
"...Was this...long before you were born?" He asked, unsure of when this had occurred. After all, it wasn't still happening, with no royal family (at least not in the same sense) to bow to in Caido.
He could tell, from the way that Loren talked of it, that he considered the binding to the crown a bad thing. From Abasi's perspective though, it was not too dissimilar from the expected loyalty to the God-like pharaoh in his home; though given that cultural differences and arguments had begun this discomfort he did not mention that. Perhaps the important thing was that it was something Loren disliked.
Though as the Launceleyn went on, Abasi began to understand more. Even as his mind, steeped as it was in the rules of a system devoted to hierarchical unfairness, fought to provide rationalisations, he felt something in his chest tighten with a pain. Perhaps it was his connection to Loren that allowed him the more emotional viewpoint. Regardless of what it was, he found himself only nodding slowly to show he was listening.
"...Was this...long before you were born?" He asked, unsure of when this had occurred. After all, it wasn't still happening, with no royal family (at least not in the same sense) to bow to in Caido.
If his heart rules him,
his conscience will soon take the place of the rod.
Base Code by Sky!
