[ Her lips quirk, slightly, as if she's holding back a smile. As if she were to say: how cute. Golden eyes took him in, and weighed the power of his conviction, all the same. Some would shy away from murder, but could do little to stop it, and did not have the will to stand tall.
She thinks that Xiao is not that type. ]
You will find yourself struggling to find company that agrees with your position among either faction, I am afraid. For we shard-bearers, murder is nothing. For those who are born here, it is more permanent, but they are caught between the forces of darkness and light in a war for the very soul of their world.
[ But! She turns her attention to his actual question. ]
Well, if Cyrus is intelligent, he will assign himself guards, and deal with the murderer when they come, as long as his guards are of strong will. However, this will not be the only attempt on his life, even if this current crisis subsides. Another will come, and another. Likely whenever we shard-bearers lose an oracle to Zenith, he will face these accusations again.
As fond as I am of him, Cyrus does not have an iron fist, and never will. He will not quash these rumblings but can do little to silence them, either.
So he may continue, a weakened man fighting off every attempt to topple him, and become all the harder, and all the crueler for it. I suspect it would change him, and I do not know if he would become a strong man under such force.
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She thinks that Xiao is not that type. ]
You will find yourself struggling to find company that agrees with your position among either faction, I am afraid. For we shard-bearers, murder is nothing. For those who are born here, it is more permanent, but they are caught between the forces of darkness and light in a war for the very soul of their world.
[ But! She turns her attention to his actual question. ]
Well, if Cyrus is intelligent, he will assign himself guards, and deal with the murderer when they come, as long as his guards are of strong will. However, this will not be the only attempt on his life, even if this current crisis subsides. Another will come, and another. Likely whenever we shard-bearers lose an oracle to Zenith, he will face these accusations again.
As fond as I am of him, Cyrus does not have an iron fist, and never will. He will not quash these rumblings but can do little to silence them, either.
So he may continue, a weakened man fighting off every attempt to topple him, and become all the harder, and all the crueler for it. I suspect it would change him, and I do not know if he would become a strong man under such force.