The Salle, Monday Morning

[bitchprince]

On Friday, Arthur had reached a decision. After the weekend, he wasn't in the best mood to follow through on it, but there were few reasons to let his mood interfere with what was, essentially, a duty of some kind.

The duty of survival. As Crown Prince, it was a real one.

Still, he thought, as he arrived in the salle, Dinah had best be grateful. And it was all tactics. His gut still twinged with the sting of clear betrayal, but his sense of morality was as confused on this subject as anything else ever was, and so he ignored it.

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[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"There is Beasts who say I act only in interest of humans, and humans who say I act only in interest of Beasts," she shrugged. "They is not seeing I act for both."

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Translations are a service for either side, not just one," Alice said, lifting her shoulders. "How can it benefit one side more than the other, for both to be on common ground?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Is not just in translating," Firekeeper clarified. "Is also in," she frowned, trying to think of how best to explain given her limited vocabulary, "in trying to solve problems each side presents the other."

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"Playing the mediator?" Alice asked, intrigued by the girl's description of her role as emissary between roles. "In that case, I should imagine you're doing quite an excellent job. One knows one is succeeding as an intermediary when both sides think one is biased towards the other."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Your living may serve many... Questioner's words, again.

"It seem like sometimes, the only solution is in making none walk away happy," Firekeeper said with a snort.

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"If none are happy, then perhaps none have overpowered the others," Alice shrugged. "Peacekeeping is always difficult. War is easier than peace, though messier."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"War is a human thing," Firekeeper said bluntly. "I was not knowing it, Beasts was not knowing it, until humans show us both."

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

Alice frowned, trying to wrap her mind around that concept. "I hadn't realized," she admitted. "My apologies. How do the Beasts settle territorial issues and lines of succession?"

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

Firekeeper shrugged. "I not know much of other Beasts, but with wolves, there is fights, yes, but they is challenger against One. None of this battles against a target you do not know. If a territory is lost, pride is wounded for a time, but there is always new territory to be found. No land has more meaning than other land." It was, for her, an uncharacteristically long speech.

[notyourpawn.livejournal.com]

"No collateral damage," Alice mused, considering it. "No attacking one place in order to hurt another; no Pyrrhic victories because pride has gone too far."

She hesitated, hoping this wouldn't be seen as rude, before adding, "I think one could hardly fault you for siding quite firmly with the Beasts, if you had done so."

[kestrelswolf.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps," Firekeeper nodded. "But they is not always knowing what is right, either," it said a lot about what she'd learned in the past two years, of Beasts and humans and those inbetween, that she could even make that admission.

[ooc: Ugh, sorry. Got distracted with RL. I'll be around most of tomorrow if you're up for SP? Because this is an interesting conversation!]