un: worm wife / text

[wifedup]

( There is absolutely someone out there fucking with Wen Kexing, and so if anyone mentions the state of his new name he's going to commit Attrocities. He's here for a reason ... admittedly a potential wife reason, but still! You mention being a worm one time and fate laughs at you. )

It's come to my attention we're all very demure about our own skill sets. When it comes to trying to work together that reticence might be to our detriment. Especially considering the wealth of people we have here, what if one of us is in need of a carpenter and we don't know where to go? Or a scribe, those might be handy with all the terrible meetings we have to listen to. Or a healer, even.

( A healer especially, but he is the most subtle and anyone implying otherwise needs to be quiet. )

And so, I thought it might be a good idea if we instead shared what we were good at. I can go first.

Cooking.
A pursuer of scholarly endeavours.
Passable martial arts.
Provider of wine.

If anyone needs any poetry or lessons in how not to burn water then I am certainly your man. I know these aren’t exactly the more useful of skills, but there are bound to be more capable people out there. We need to help each other in these trying times, after all.

( We also need to not be lying bastards, but oh well. )

Comments

[wifedup]

So you rely on the good will of others to keep you alive? We do have an abundance of hero types here, you might get lucky.

[seaboard]

It is not that. It is that I do not have the liberty of others of half measures in response.

My power is absolute, and it acts to protect me in only the absolute. If someone were to be so cruel, so vile to me?

They would find only pieces.

[wifedup]

( ... Interesting. )

What kind of power could someone wield to have such a shocking outcome?

[seaboard]

The power of the tides.

The sea takes no prisoners, and it never gives back what it takes.

[wifedup]

So ... drowning?

[seaboard]

No. We do that to cities, not individuals, and peace be willing, that sort of destruction has and will ever be done by my ancestor, founded of my line, my house and our kingdom, the once.

Though I do not think you wish the answer, it is... gruesome.

[wifedup]

I suppose this one will have to keep guessing then. Though I do think you might want to be prepared in any case. This place is not peaceful.

[seaboard]

So I am learning.

Us, least amount them.

[wifedup]

Oh, I don't know about all of that.

I'm a pacifist.

( Ha. )

[seaboard]

[ THE SOUND OF UTTER UNIMPRESSED DISBELIEF. ]

Perhaps when our option is other than assassination and plots, that may have credence, but I fear we are no different to those we seek to depose.

[wifedup]

And what if one attempts neutrality?

( He hasn't been, but she doesn't need to know that. )

[seaboard]

How so?

[wifedup]

Some of us avoid the machinations, live our lives. Would you hold them accountable too?

[seaboard]

[ She is - not the one to bring up neutrality too. ]

Do you aide those that make these plans?

[wifedup]

Who, me? I hardly have anything to do with anything.

[seaboard]

Neutrality is an act of abstaining. Not just being passive to let things occur around you, idly picking and choosing when you feel like it.

[wifedup]

Aren't they one and the same? If you're neutral things happen around you regardless?