[What can she say to that, now that Fordola has started to come to the conclusion on her own? Knowing she probably has no idea about its origins, its purpose? Irhya's mouth hangs open for a few moments as she processes this.]
Fordola...
[Should she tell her? Perhaps now is the right time, now that she's not wont to mire herself in denial over it...]
I'm happy for you, that you've been exploring yourself freely in a setting like this where your reputation is a blank slate. And I understand your fear of going back; you would hardly be the only one, either. As for Garlemald...
[She swallows, lets out a breath. She's tense all of a sudden.]
Keep this quiet, all right? There are some people here who already know, but I'd like not to make a big issue of it. Garlemald has always existed with the intention of creating chaos, not merely as a differing philosophy to ours. Because Solus zos Galvus desired it, yes, but not necessarily because he was a maniac with a world destruction complex or anything. The reason goes much deeper, but... its founding and the conditioning of its citizens to believe in conquest was the easiest way to create strife among us. And that was the goal, a means to an end. All of ours, more than likely.
It must sound hard to believe without launching into a longer explanation, but the longer way would be even harder to believe. Some truths are better kept silent until the time is right, but that you've started to come to that conclusion on your own... I think it is safe to tell you.
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Fordola...
[Should she tell her? Perhaps now is the right time, now that she's not wont to mire herself in denial over it...]
I'm happy for you, that you've been exploring yourself freely in a setting like this where your reputation is a blank slate. And I understand your fear of going back; you would hardly be the only one, either. As for Garlemald...
[She swallows, lets out a breath. She's tense all of a sudden.]
Keep this quiet, all right? There are some people here who already know, but I'd like not to make a big issue of it. Garlemald has always existed with the intention of creating chaos, not merely as a differing philosophy to ours. Because Solus zos Galvus desired it, yes, but not necessarily because he was a maniac with a world destruction complex or anything. The reason goes much deeper, but... its founding and the conditioning of its citizens to believe in conquest was the easiest way to create strife among us. And that was the goal, a means to an end. All of ours, more than likely.
It must sound hard to believe without launching into a longer explanation, but the longer way would be even harder to believe. Some truths are better kept silent until the time is right, but that you've started to come to that conclusion on your own... I think it is safe to tell you.