[He understands the response - resigning to a role as a best option is, after all, what many of the wizards also seem to be doing. He'd given the same response many, many times, if only to separate his feelings from the process.
Gathering the vegetables and rice and odds and ends, he starts migrating over to the stove top, rummaging for some sort of fat to use before the sizzle of vegetables echoes through the room.]
If your wizards are going to come to you for advice, Tatara, honesty is a good way to start. But if this world and its magic operate off of conviction, then those that need guidance may look for an example.
You're in a position you don't feel you can avoid. Not without consequence. So obligation makes you stay. But what is it that makes you act for yourself?
Your King? Your country? The life you left behind? Do you simply want to feel you're doing what's best?
[No loyal hound works out of obligation. Obligation doesn't feed and shelter, train and encourage, reprimand and punish. The hound looks to his master and finds loyalty in connection to what he's been given, good or bad.
The rice is added to the pan. The seaweed after. A season of this, a pinch of that.]
no subject
[He understands the response - resigning to a role as a best option is, after all, what many of the wizards also seem to be doing. He'd given the same response many, many times, if only to separate his feelings from the process.
Gathering the vegetables and rice and odds and ends, he starts migrating over to the stove top, rummaging for some sort of fat to use before the sizzle of vegetables echoes through the room.]
If your wizards are going to come to you for advice, Tatara, honesty is a good way to start. But if this world and its magic operate off of conviction, then those that need guidance may look for an example.
You're in a position you don't feel you can avoid. Not without consequence. So obligation makes you stay. But what is it that makes you act for yourself?
Your King? Your country? The life you left behind? Do you simply want to feel you're doing what's best?
[No loyal hound works out of obligation. Obligation doesn't feed and shelter, train and encourage, reprimand and punish. The hound looks to his master and finds loyalty in connection to what he's been given, good or bad.
The rice is added to the pan. The seaweed after. A season of this, a pinch of that.]
Think about it, would you?