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[leitstern]

Hmph! Titles here are worthless. Futile, trivial words scrawled on parchment. Merely thinking of them insults me.

[Granted, he needs little provocation to feel insulted.]

Why do you regard their distinction as an accolade worthy of merit?

It has been most instructive as to the nature of your kind that you salivate like mongrels and chase subordination and not independence.

[There is an embittered sigh.]

Do you not entertain any notion of loyalty to your native land? Your eager willingness to chase glory is abominable. Hm. It is useless. You should close your mouths and remember where you come from.

Comments

[leitstern]

That is precisely what I would like to do. Whether it is possible is another matter entirely.

[morganknight]

Does that exempt you from an obligation to try?

[leitstern]

Hardly - but then I am hardly under obligation, am I?

I am not bound to this kingdom as a knight.

[morganknight]

Not to this kingdom, but to your own personal ethics. Or are they satisfied just by berating others?

[leitstern]

My personal ethics are satisfied by honesty. I would not disgrace others by feigning some fradulant manner of politeness.

[morganknight]

Now that I'm taking a stand on. Politeness and honesty aren't correlated. You can be entirely honest without being rude. And I think, in general, people who believe that being polite to someone they disagree with is in some way false are ultimately asking for frustration.

[leitstern]

You mistake the source of my frustration but fine. If such a misconception is what you believe who am I to argue otherwise?

[morganknight]

Seems to me your frustration stems from people doing something you believe to be, if I may distill it down to a word, idiotic.

[leitstern]

Perhaps. I am hardly the only soul tested by impatience.

[But it boils down to more than that. He cannot relate to people who waste time. He cannot relate to people at all.]

[morganknight]

Boy, is that true. Learning when to stop getting in my own way was a heck of a lesson.

[leitstern]

I am delighted to hear you improved. But our situations are hardly so similar. This is hardly "getting in my own way", I dare say.

[morganknight]

I'm not so sure about that. If your goal is to get them to stop, your message is getting in the way.

[leitstern]

Oh, my goal is hardly to make them stop. It is simply to make them think.

[morganknight]

I've never met anyone who got more thoughtful and open-minded when being venomously chastised, personally.

[leitstern]

That is most unfortunate.

[And entirely not his problem.]

[morganknight]

Well, if you're comfortable with your choices, I can't dispute that.