[She smiles, a little skewed, mouth quirked up more on one side.]
I can hear you being diplomatic, you know.
[But she appreciates it.]
Thank you for listening.
One of the most important things to understand, I think, is that wardens are not the admiral. They didn't build this place, and they don't have the final say. We can petition him, but ultimately the admiral does, and he is generally an inscrutable condescending ass who cannot drive straight to save his life. I'm grateful to him for a lot of things, but facts are facts.
And most of the wardens here resent him quite a bit more than I do. They're here to get paid, or because they earnestly want to help people, or both, but that doesn't mean they approve of the shit he pulls. Usually the opposite. You can waste a lot of time thinking it's one group against the other, but mostly it's all of us trying to survive whatever he's dragging us through lately.
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I can hear you being diplomatic, you know.
[But she appreciates it.]
Thank you for listening.
One of the most important things to understand, I think, is that wardens are not the admiral. They didn't build this place, and they don't have the final say. We can petition him, but ultimately the admiral does, and he is generally an inscrutable condescending ass who cannot drive straight to save his life. I'm grateful to him for a lot of things, but facts are facts.
And most of the wardens here resent him quite a bit more than I do. They're here to get paid, or because they earnestly want to help people, or both, but that doesn't mean they approve of the shit he pulls. Usually the opposite. You can waste a lot of time thinking it's one group against the other, but mostly it's all of us trying to survive whatever he's dragging us through lately.