[Will's first language is English, and he still has plenty of trouble with it. After a casual reminder that choosing words was to be done carefully because each of them had meaning and agenda and finding out that the ones he took for good meant the opposite? He's grown a little more careful himself. Her struggling is noted without him making that obvious.
Barbaric. Murder. Not really anything unusual. He teaches it, talks about it openly, makes a paycheck with it. The reasoning behind it is important, and human sacrifice to get rid of a bad leader and a bad situation...one of the better ones.]
Do you miss that? [His eyebrows lift as he asks, curious but not in the sense that he wants more in-depth details about human sacrifice.] Nowadays, we sit around with our thumbs up our asses waiting on votes or someone to step down while they technically still hold office unless they really screw it up. Plagues would multiply and cover the entire continent by the time we booted whoever it was out with the systems as they are.
[He's not saying it's a better idea. He's not saying he agrees with it. But for someone who lived in times like hers, going to times like the ones he knows...he could step in the shoes and imagine some of the aggravation with how much can be gotten away with only for the bad to retire with limitless funds and protection and never want for anything, no matter how badly they might have fucked a nation (or two, or five, or more) over.]
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Barbaric. Murder. Not really anything unusual. He teaches it, talks about it openly, makes a paycheck with it. The reasoning behind it is important, and human sacrifice to get rid of a bad leader and a bad situation...one of the better ones.]
Do you miss that? [His eyebrows lift as he asks, curious but not in the sense that he wants more in-depth details about human sacrifice.] Nowadays, we sit around with our thumbs up our asses waiting on votes or someone to step down while they technically still hold office unless they really screw it up. Plagues would multiply and cover the entire continent by the time we booted whoever it was out with the systems as they are.
[He's not saying it's a better idea. He's not saying he agrees with it. But for someone who lived in times like hers, going to times like the ones he knows...he could step in the shoes and imagine some of the aggravation with how much can be gotten away with only for the bad to retire with limitless funds and protection and never want for anything, no matter how badly they might have fucked a nation (or two, or five, or more) over.]