Private Conversations with the Lady
Jan. 5th, 2020 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soulspice[Welcome to the Lady's...not home far from home, but it's a place she tolerates. The moment you enter it's clear she did her best to make this office in the bookstore a place she approves.
Outfitted with an overly plush chair on a rather elaborate rug, the desk is overflowing with countless books stacked everywhere, with everything serving as a makeshift bookshelf including an errant fax machine. The Lady seems to have tried her best to make the amenities up to her standards: there’s a tray with a teapot, notes everywhere written with confusing ciphers, and what seems to be an attempt to make a generator, but wasn’t completed.
Where the Lady sits it’s far more orderly, facing the door and giving her the high ground against anyone who enters. On the far wall hangs a large portrait of the Lady, adding character and additional charm. Truly, this is the office of someone who wants you to feel small before her presence.
And, there on her chair, there she is. When the door opened she turned her head towards you, seeing who it was. Invariably of who it is, she sighs like this is a big interruption of her work, and keeps writing and drawing]
Don't touch anything and make sure you don't track mud in. If you have any complaints go see Rembrandt.
[She didn't even look up while saying that. So, what brings you to her office today?]
Outfitted with an overly plush chair on a rather elaborate rug, the desk is overflowing with countless books stacked everywhere, with everything serving as a makeshift bookshelf including an errant fax machine. The Lady seems to have tried her best to make the amenities up to her standards: there’s a tray with a teapot, notes everywhere written with confusing ciphers, and what seems to be an attempt to make a generator, but wasn’t completed.
Where the Lady sits it’s far more orderly, facing the door and giving her the high ground against anyone who enters. On the far wall hangs a large portrait of the Lady, adding character and additional charm. Truly, this is the office of someone who wants you to feel small before her presence.
And, there on her chair, there she is. When the door opened she turned her head towards you, seeing who it was. Invariably of who it is, she sighs like this is a big interruption of her work, and keeps writing and drawing]
Don't touch anything and make sure you don't track mud in. If you have any complaints go see Rembrandt.
[She didn't even look up while saying that. So, what brings you to her office today?]
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Date: 2020-01-22 01:26 am (UTC)Well, I must admit, that is very tempting. In this hypothetical situation only, of course.
[Of course.]
But what would you want from me, then? Rembrandt seems to be able to handle everything you need here, unless I'm mistaken...?
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Date: 2020-01-22 01:36 am (UTC)[She shakes her head]
As for what I'd want from you: you're a tactician. And good tacticians are so few in my world. Someone who can use people competently would be invaluable.
[She sighs]
Alas, it wouldn't be meant to be, I figured. Why would you do anything for someone in some other world while you're ruling Nohr?
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Date: 2020-01-22 01:44 am (UTC)I'm sure you're already aware of how much I loathe being a pawn to someone else.
[hahahaha it's funny because that's what he actually is!!!]
But with that said... Well, the world as I knew it was a much more simple place. Ruling Nohr - and Hoshido, once I'd won the war - would have been enough for me.
You did bring me here and introduce me to so many other worlds and ideas, however. It's a bit hard to find any interest in simply returning to Nohr when I could have something more.
If - hypothetically, of course - you were to offer, I might consider it.
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Date: 2020-01-22 01:58 am (UTC)Oh? Could it be I understimated your ambition? [She did believe Iago would be limited to his world, but if he's interested in more...maybe it can work, after all] We'll see, once this is all over. Hypothetically. Don't die.
[Hypothetically is starting to not resemble a real word to her, but she does seem to be considering making an offer at the end of everything]
Even if this whole project in Krakow fails, getting a few useful people into my inner circle would be worth the hassle. Yes, I would be satisfied with that.
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Date: 2020-01-22 02:03 am (UTC)[And what a wild idea that is. It isn't really something he'd put much thought into before this conversation, but suddenly it's sounding like a damn good idea. He wouldn't have to deal with Xander and Leo (or whichever one of them is left alive), he wouldn't have to deal with Garon or securing his position as the next king, and the war with Hoshido would be a thing of the past. What ties does he have to Nohr that aren't born of his ambition alone?
None. So leaving it all behind is very possible.]
Let's have this conversation again at the end, then. Maybe next time it won't be hypothetical.
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Date: 2020-01-22 01:37 pm (UTC)[I'm not sure if these two working together would be an amazing team, or a cycle of continuous backstabbing to each other.
Possibly both.
Well that was a productive conversation, Iago]
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Date: 2020-01-22 05:43 pm (UTC)i have no idea what i expected from this private conversation, but this was definitely not it, thanks!!!]
Of course. Until next time.
[And there will be a next time now that he knows the Lady is this fun.]