AINO
There was much in the response for her to process. The woman was pregnant. She had been a queen - what passed for warden in other places, Aino presumed. The General was her brother. As she had not met the man yet she had no idea what to think of that, but it was also fairly irrelevant.
So far there had been contacts offered, business proposals, names thrown around... but none of this managed to completely ease Aino's douobts.
"So you're someone who knows everyone. A spider in its web. But you're not Queen here, missy. Nor are you on the Council, as far as I know," she pointed out. Slow, thoughtful; suspicious.
"You say you've contributed to the people here, and that's good and all, but... I don't know. Is this some subtle power grab meant to undermine Morgan? Because let me be clear - there is no way I'm letting my family be dragged into something like that. Good intentions or no."
She was not trying to be ungrateful, but this was just too incredible to swallow. Who in their right mind would go out of their way to all this for a complete stranger? Especially when there seemed to be no benefits to Hotaru whatsoever. Aino was cynical enough to believe that getting out of a debt was not good enough of a reason for the trouble it would take.
So far there had been contacts offered, business proposals, names thrown around... but none of this managed to completely ease Aino's douobts.
"So you're someone who knows everyone. A spider in its web. But you're not Queen here, missy. Nor are you on the Council, as far as I know," she pointed out. Slow, thoughtful; suspicious.
"You say you've contributed to the people here, and that's good and all, but... I don't know. Is this some subtle power grab meant to undermine Morgan? Because let me be clear - there is no way I'm letting my family be dragged into something like that. Good intentions or no."
She was not trying to be ungrateful, but this was just too incredible to swallow. Who in their right mind would go out of their way to all this for a complete stranger? Especially when there seemed to be no benefits to Hotaru whatsoever. Aino was cynical enough to believe that getting out of a debt was not good enough of a reason for the trouble it would take.
For the good times that we share,
and the bad times that we'll have
and the bad times that we'll have
