[The question makes Sarah pause for a moment. Her expression has mulled down into something serious and heavy, her thoughts turning to the Emperor and their intentions as well as memories of another bit of royalty and his intentions with his own realm.
She turns her gaze back to her paper now, expression thoughtful but more mellow than seconds before.]
I was sort of ticked off in the beginning, I'm not going to lie. I came to in those woods and the wolf was long gone by then. I couldn't even get a question out or anything.
[She sighs a breath out through her nose, brow pinching together a moment at that memory before it starts to relax out again. And then she shakes her head a little.]
Even if they are partly responsible for bringing me here, in the end I was the one who chose to come. I didn't have to answer after all. I meant what I told it though, that I would do anything to save my world. And I just don't think the Emperor or the Priestess are really the people we need to look towards to do that.
[Saying that out loud in the very library of the Emperor isn't the brightest of ideas maybe, not when she hopes to keep using the Court's services to learn magic as fast as she can. Sarah isn't one to mince words though if she can help it or if she doesn't feel it's necessary. She could keep her tongue in front of the Emperor themselves but she felt there was little reason to do so in front of this guy or any other sleepy library attendants.
Now her brow pinches again.]
I've seen someone try to leave the kingdom they created to die. The Emperor might have a leg up on that bastard for being willing to take their subjects but they had to have help from these gods to even have that option. And then just leave them? Or at least there was no mention of them. And that just --
[Mmh. Her lips tighten together a moment and she fiddles with her pen like it's personally affronted her somehow.]
I'm not going to stand by and watch that happen. Or support it either.
[Not again. If Moppet hadn't come to her yelling at her to help, she might have just blissfully sunk into that dream Labyrinth without another care, a broken and hollow woman accepting a shallow and stupid peace.]
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She turns her gaze back to her paper now, expression thoughtful but more mellow than seconds before.]
I was sort of ticked off in the beginning, I'm not going to lie. I came to in those woods and the wolf was long gone by then. I couldn't even get a question out or anything.
[She sighs a breath out through her nose, brow pinching together a moment at that memory before it starts to relax out again. And then she shakes her head a little.]
Even if they are partly responsible for bringing me here, in the end I was the one who chose to come. I didn't have to answer after all. I meant what I told it though, that I would do anything to save my world. And I just don't think the Emperor or the Priestess are really the people we need to look towards to do that.
[Saying that out loud in the very library of the Emperor isn't the brightest of ideas maybe, not when she hopes to keep using the Court's services to learn magic as fast as she can. Sarah isn't one to mince words though if she can help it or if she doesn't feel it's necessary. She could keep her tongue in front of the Emperor themselves but she felt there was little reason to do so in front of this guy or any other sleepy library attendants.
Now her brow pinches again.]
I've seen someone try to leave the kingdom they created to die. The Emperor might have a leg up on that bastard for being willing to take their subjects but they had to have help from these gods to even have that option. And then just leave them? Or at least there was no mention of them. And that just --
[Mmh. Her lips tighten together a moment and she fiddles with her pen like it's personally affronted her somehow.]
I'm not going to stand by and watch that happen. Or support it either.
[Not again. If Moppet hadn't come to her yelling at her to help, she might have just blissfully sunk into that dream Labyrinth without another care, a broken and hollow woman accepting a shallow and stupid peace.]