Maybe. But we can’t—we were losing the war. If we go back to that, we will go back to losing. The only way things will change is if we convince enough people that we deserve to have them change.
[Well, then, they weren't beaten. Or were they? Of the two of them, it would be Enchanter Averesch who would know. Matthias was there, but not the way that he was. He looks down at his hands, the rough callouses on his fingers and the long old scar that runs just above the knuckles, curved like a thin smile.]
People have to know better by now. Mages've done a great deal. Without the Circles.
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Date: 2019-12-12 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-12-13 04:09 pm (UTC)We weren't losing.
[Were... they?]
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Date: 2019-12-17 07:11 pm (UTC)[ Or, well— ]
I hope.
It was that or make a last stand.
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Date: 2019-12-27 04:10 am (UTC)[Well, then, they weren't beaten. Or were they? Of the two of them, it would be Enchanter Averesch who would know. Matthias was there, but not the way that he was. He looks down at his hands, the rough callouses on his fingers and the long old scar that runs just above the knuckles, curved like a thin smile.]
People have to know better by now. Mages've done a great deal. Without the Circles.