Maea
The kind of flawless they think I should be
Maea nodded sympathetically, wincing slightly at the blood his worrying had drawn. It could not be easy to have everything you knew overthrown and replaced by a new order. She knew the feeling of helplessness and frustration, because it was happening to her as well. Here the was, sitting by the foot of the Spire and instructing an Outlander on the lore she grew up hearing... planning how to become the leader of her people. And tomorrow, the barrier might fall.
It was insane.
"I couldn't say why you were chosen specifically" she replied, more softly. "But there is a purpose to your coming here. The Voice was imprisoned within this barrier, and it has stood for three hundred years. But now, within the span of less than a year a great number of people has come through from every manner of world. Soldiers, scholars, craftsmen and thieves... and during the same time the Ascended have awakened, a monster that guarded this place since the construction of the Spire has been defeated...
Tell me, what conclusion would you draw from that?
She knew the answer, or thought she did, but would let Are reach his own conclusion. In a way, Rory was right. The Outlanders were a problem in a hundred ways... But Maea refused to accept that they should be treated any different from the Natural inhabitants because of something they could not help. They were all humans in the end, weren't they? That was all that mattered to her.
It was insane.
"I couldn't say why you were chosen specifically" she replied, more softly. "But there is a purpose to your coming here. The Voice was imprisoned within this barrier, and it has stood for three hundred years. But now, within the span of less than a year a great number of people has come through from every manner of world. Soldiers, scholars, craftsmen and thieves... and during the same time the Ascended have awakened, a monster that guarded this place since the construction of the Spire has been defeated...
Tell me, what conclusion would you draw from that?
She knew the answer, or thought she did, but would let Are reach his own conclusion. In a way, Rory was right. The Outlanders were a problem in a hundred ways... But Maea refused to accept that they should be treated any different from the Natural inhabitants because of something they could not help. They were all humans in the end, weren't they? That was all that mattered to her.
The kind of flawless I wish I could be
