iv.

[athosing]

muses

ALSO DOUBLING AS A TFLN OVERFLOW

Comments

no, that's cool.

[desequilibre]

that does not mean she did not tell you much before you threw her aside.

[firstminister]

She didn't. I have my own ways of acquiring information.

[desequilibre]

which this time?
thievery, blackmail, murder?

[firstminister]

I have this radical invention.
They're called ears.

[desequilibre]

people do not give information willingly.

[firstminister]

You would be surprised what people talk about when they think no one - or no one important - is listening in.

[desequilibre]

i highly doubt my life was such a topic.

[firstminister]

You underestimate yourself.
Do you really think your past was that much of a secret?
I have records of Deeds for all the lands.
I knew who you were before you knew who I was.

[desequilibre]

[ That's ... troubling.

Only a little, but enough to make him pause. Treville had known of course, but he had thought his secrecy perfect. ]

No one cared about Pinon, why should you?

[firstminister]

It is a land estate within the borders of France.
Why wouldn't I know or care about it?

[desequilibre]

it of no use to you.

[ He doesn't want the Cardinal to be a ruler of it. ]

[firstminister]

Not to me personally.

Should France fall into war, it could become very important.

[He's said it before: he's a practical man.]

[desequilibre]

i highly doubt that.

[firstminister]

Then you understand little of how war works.

It is always important to have options should Paris herself be threatened.

[desequilibre]

i understand enough.
i'm a soldier, i fear you forget that.

[firstminister]

Then you should start thinking and behaving like one.

And you should understand that we would make better allies than enemies.