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[The video feed flickers on to show a lovely adult troll, tyrian colored eyes matching her tyrian painted lips. Thick black hair down to the ground that seems to wrap around her figure. She, all together, looks rather bored, like this is some tedious effort she doesn't want to deal with.]

Hello, Vatheon.

[A smile touches her features, one much softer than most would expect! Less condescending than her title implies.]

I feel now is a good time to introduce my presence and-

[She turns her head away from the video for a moment, something obviously caught her attention. The video becomes shaky as she walks quickly.]

Grand Highblood?

[The video doesn't turn from its original position, but a low rumbling voice can be heard offscreen:]

Well, my lady. Didn't think I would be all motherfucking finding you here so quick-like and shit.

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It's a shame my words have fallen on deaf ears, but please do practice what you have been preaching for far so long. You cannot invalidate my feelings simply by whim despite what you think or feel or you are no better than how I treated you.

[She says this in a curt tone but that's all she really does.]

You have no reason to trust me and I do not expect you to. But as I told the little one, I have no intention of hurting or ending anyone else's life.

After losing the psiioniic [helmsman] I had a lot of time to think. And that is exactly what I did.

[She gives him a cold look, eyes narrowing. She did indeed regret losing her helmsman and his power.]

That's was a very pretty speech, Condesce, and I commend you for it. A shame that it's not true.

[Signless' eyes narrow too, and some of the politeness bleeds away from his face, replaced by an icy coldness that very few trolls in Vatheon have seen.]

It is my greatest wish that we could, in fact, work together and that you are repentant. However, were that the case, I doubt you would have spent the last twenty days tormenting and terrifying a helpless troll who is incapable, through the very implementations you put upon him, of defending himself or even saying no. So forgive me, Condesce, if I don't immediately come to you with open, welcoming arms.

How exactly did I torment him? By treating him with kindness, trying to make up for how horrible I've been to him? Was it the time I apologized to him, Signless? Or perhaps when I told him he was allowed to sit on the furniture despite the wishes of another troll? Wait! I really must say it was the offer to get him tea! That's obviously tormenting someone.

[She continues to stare sharply.]

I told Dualscar to treat him with respect, as I have been doing. Don't believe me, ask either one of them.

Allowed... an interesting word choice there, Condesce. Almost as though you don't think of him as an autonomous individual and more like a pet, like a companion barkbeast that you allow in your presence.

[She's not the only one glaring right now.]

And you know as well as I do that you terrify him, whether you're continuing this charade of kindness or not. If you're truly repentant, you'd leave him alone.

Yes, allowed, because unbeknownst to me he had been told he was not allowed. So he believed he was not, I told him he was. You're looking for negativity in my words that is not there, Signless.

[She sighs and closes her eyes for a moment, before looking at him.]

Then I shall leave him alone, Signless, if that is what you ask. Let me inform him first, at least.

You'll have to do better than that, Condesce.

[Signless closes his eyes for a moment, but when he opens them again, they're full of all the fire and power that nearly brought the Empire to its knees.]

You'll have to truly give him up, to relinquish all claim on him, and to leave any other psionic mages that enter Vatheon alone. Moreover, you'll have to tell the other highbloods who would wish him ill to leave him in peace.

The highbloods already know to bring him no harm, him obeying me or not.

[Man she's really unfazed by that look Signless.]

But it shall be done.

Then I suggest you start immediately.

It is true.
She chastised me, though I doubt you'd be wwillin to believve me, either.

Howw do you feel bein the closed minded one this time?
You'vve been wwelcomin to me, but not to our Empress.

I'LL BELIEVE IN THAT CHANGE WHEN I SEE IT.
AS YET, I'VE SEEN NO EVIDENCE TO INDICATE A GENUINE DESIRE FOR ABSOLUTION, AND SEVERAL INDICATORS QUITE TO THE CONTRARY.

Wwhat indicators?
I'vve been dealin wwith her fawwning ovver the helmsman and then chastisin me for treatin it like wwhat it is.
I'm pretty sure this is real.

WHEN PSII BELIEVES IT'S REAL
PSII, NOT THE HELMSMAN, PSII
THEN I'LL BELIEVE IT TOO.
UNTIL THEN, I HAVE MY DOUBTS.

Are you kidding me?
~~It has~~ He's been enslavved and programmed for centuries. Howw can you trust his judgment for anything to do wwith his mistress?

BECAUSE IF HE CAN FIND IT IN HIMSELF TO WORK THROUGH EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN DONE TO HIM AND FORGIVE, THEN I'LL TRULY BELIEVE SHE'S CHANGED.
UNTIL THEN, I'LL JUST BE WAITING FOR THE OTHER SHOE TO DROP.

That'll probably take a thousand fuckin swweeps, you realize.

I'M WILLING TO WAIT.

And in the meantime?
Wwar wwith the Empress, after all a your pretty wwords about it all bein meaningless in this place?

WEREN'T YOU PAYING ATTENTION, DUALSCAR?
SHE'S A CHANGED TROLL, ALL KIND AND REPENTANT AND SEEING THE ERROR OF HER WAYS.

I meant you makin wwar on her, a course.

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