I do not think she thinks lowly of you, no. [Smiles. It's Hideyoshi again, but he won't say so.] I think she's had a hard life, and you are something new entirely. I will also say, she's only seen the worst of humans. You defending them means she is probably thinking, "Ah, well, she is not like other humans," and you wouldn't let her do even that. So now she has even more to think on, to reconcile the past with you and the future, and apply it to others too. [Hideyoshi and Mitsuhide, with peasant soldiers vs. noble born, and the traps of the underground and politics inherent in the nobility that the upfront honest Hideyoshi couldn't stand.]
[The difference is Ari is smarter, and Valdis is stronger. In this a subtle reverse, but otherwise not very different!]
I am not "caught in the middle," as you say. I am exactly where I want to be. Meddling.
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I do not think she thinks lowly of you, no. [Smiles. It's Hideyoshi again, but he won't say so.] I think she's had a hard life, and you are something new entirely. I will also say, she's only seen the worst of humans. You defending them means she is probably thinking, "Ah, well, she is not like other humans," and you wouldn't let her do even that. So now she has even more to think on, to reconcile the past with you and the future, and apply it to others too. [Hideyoshi and Mitsuhide, with peasant soldiers vs. noble born, and the traps of the underground and politics inherent in the nobility that the upfront honest Hideyoshi couldn't stand.]
[The difference is Ari is smarter, and Valdis is stronger. In this a subtle reverse, but otherwise not very different!]
I am not "caught in the middle," as you say. I am exactly where I want to be. Meddling.