agentlenet | psychic thread

[The gentle brush against the Strangers' minds comes in early evening. It is, as all mental touches are from Fayura, soft and unassuming, much like a polite knock at a door. Once as many minds are connected as she thinks will open the door to her, she speaks.]

I am curious, Strangers, what you would do with the young man who shot and killed Councilwoman Vera.

Many of you come from worlds where there are laws against murder. While we have no such laws here, when a Blood male in a Queen's Territory kills another without cause, she may demand a price from him. Sometimes, that is his own life if he was negligent enough with his temper and sometimes, it's something less.

My trouble is this: if I execute him according to the laws of the Blood, of which he is not one, the Guilds will rouse their people into a furor and attack not only me, but the people of Draega. If I turn him over to the Ebon Council, the Guilds will do much the same, and that will incite the Council to strike back. And if I return him to the Guilds for accolades instead of punishment for taking a life, the Ebon Council will have cause to rip apart the Guilds and anyone in their way to extract from him the price for murdering one of their own.

Were you me, what course would you take? And please try not to shout over each other; this is as many of you as I could reach.

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Over the death of some nobody? I doubt it.

They're already going to get pissed and turn him into a somebody if she does something about it. If he has some sort of unfortunate accident, they'll probably do the same thing.

He becomes more valuable the longer he's kept alive. This should have been dealt with immediately, but now all eyes are on him. If they push through with a trial, they'll be giving him a voice, and people are going to listen.

I don't disagree with that, if it'd been done quickly, it wouldn't be an issue, but it's too late for that. So anything now's going to cause a problem.

[Except she's pretty sure things don't work like that in the modern world, but she doesn't care enough to bring that up.]

The guy meets with an accident, no matter how good the assassin is, it's going to be pretty freaking obvious what happened and that it was trying to make the whole mess go away. And if it's that noticeable, it won't.

[Seems simple enough to her, but she just sighs.]

You know this was a hell of a lot easier back when they weren't factions and crap like that, the King just says hey this guy needs dealing with and it's done.

[ He figures they'll just continue being at odds with each other, and he figures he's had enough of that already, so he moves along easily with the shift in conversation. ]

There are too many powers at play here. Everyone wants to come out on top.

[ Which is why he recommended tearing it all down, but apparently that just leads to more chaos. Who would've thought? ]

Can't argue with that one either. Makes my damn head hurt trying to keep track of it and seems like everything you do is bound to piss one of them off.

This is just the start.

[ If he sounds a little grim, that's because he is. ]

Someone is going to the beat the others to the highest point, and I'm not sure we're on the winning side here.

What makes you think that?

[She doesn't feel like she's on the losing side. And thinks she sure as hell isn't going to be.]

[ That's what everyone wants to think!! Time to join team pessimism. ]

Our side is too busy trying to placate people and playing peacemaker, while the others are actively working to further their goals.

Yeah, but you have to do some of that too. You can't just further your goals in spite of the people. All the people, I mean.

[She can be kind of dumb, but that's a lesson learned from her world's version of Camelot.]

I'm sure some of these guys think that's a great idea, but trust me, it really doesn't work out in the end.

You can when you have another faction doing all the dirty work of cleaning up after your messes.

[ Which is what he thinks Queen Fayura's Court is doing. ]

And considering how I imagine the end will be, I'd rather not get there to find out.

[She can't really argue against that, and she's not happy about it either. But she'll ask another question because she sure as hell doesn't have an answer for it if that's the case.]

So what are you going to do about it?

Nothing, apparently.

[ Sounds super casual about it!! He can talk a big game, but he's aware he has little power here. ]

It's obvious I have the unpopular opinion in this case. I said what I wanted to say, and that's about all I can do.

[Well having heard that, unlike her last response, she knows exactly what to say here.]

What a pain in the ass.

[ He's heard that one before!! ]

If you don't like it, no one's making you listen.

Not just you.

[But yes, this dude seems like a pain in the ass to her.]

This whole damn thing.

[ Haein? A pain in the ass?? Impossible. ]

We signed up for it.

Doesn't make it any less of a pain in the ass.

I guess that's true. We'll have to wait and see how it plays out.

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