[ roxana is in a good mood, high perhaps in all the wrongs ways or only horrible ways. this has been something she's been looking forward to for a long time, and she finds she doesn't mind buzen's presence here and how. she can't place if seeing him assuages the lingering, niggling uncertainty she feels or not.
she takes a sip of her own glass. ]
You've always wished for my victory.
[ even when he shouldn't. ]
Bloodshed is unavoidable tonight, but I'd like you to minimize it where you can.
[ it may be a little hypocritical of her, but she thinks buzen can do what she cannot (or what she won't choose to do herself). ]
[well, he thinks it's a bit funny. buzen always wants victory, in whatever form that looks like. sometimes it looks like absolute devastation in making sure that history progresses as it should - but there's a certain freedom to being here instead.]
I have no duty or prewritten history to uphold here - my duty and faith belong only to you. So how could I wish for anything else?
[he's loyal and dedicated to the end that way. he sips away at the wine, and laughs a little bit at the request.]
But sure, I can do that. Friend and foe alike? Or do you want enemies to be captured elsewhere alive?
[the way this is kind of a cruel question but buzen has to just make sure he understands his mission as a sword?]
[ it is perhaps that part of his nature that makes roxana more willing to accept what he tells her than most. he can lie and he can murder, but there is something true to him, even if there is a question of his existence.
for roxana, whose fiction and reality have become one, what does it mean to exist? the closer roxana is to her personal victory, the less she has a firm answer to that question. of course, it doesn't show in the curve of her smile.
it may have been a cruel question, but it's not one that fazes her. tonight is her own form of cruelty. ]
I've ordered most of the servants, those who don't know how to fight, to an annex. Save any who may have lingered behind. Enemies can be left to their own fate.
[ she wants her family compound ruined. she plans to destroy any connection to her family. she doesn't care if they're saved or left to rot. ]
The blood shed tonight is my selfishness.
[ she isn't trying to be kind. she just doesn't want to drag in unnecessary parties. ]
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she takes a sip of her own glass. ]
You've always wished for my victory.
[ even when he shouldn't. ]
Bloodshed is unavoidable tonight, but I'd like you to minimize it where you can.
[ it may be a little hypocritical of her, but she thinks buzen can do what she cannot (or what she won't choose to do herself). ]
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I have no duty or prewritten history to uphold here - my duty and faith belong only to you. So how could I wish for anything else?
[he's loyal and dedicated to the end that way. he sips away at the wine, and laughs a little bit at the request.]
But sure, I can do that. Friend and foe alike? Or do you want enemies to be captured elsewhere alive?
[the way this is kind of a cruel question but buzen has to just make sure he understands his mission as a sword?]
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[ it is perhaps that part of his nature that makes roxana more willing to accept what he tells her than most. he can lie and he can murder, but there is something true to him, even if there is a question of his existence.
for roxana, whose fiction and reality have become one, what does it mean to exist? the closer roxana is to her personal victory, the less she has a firm answer to that question. of course, it doesn't show in the curve of her smile.
it may have been a cruel question, but it's not one that fazes her. tonight is her own form of cruelty. ]
I've ordered most of the servants, those who don't know how to fight, to an annex. Save any who may have lingered behind. Enemies can be left to their own fate.
[ she wants her family compound ruined. she plans to destroy any connection to her family. she doesn't care if they're saved or left to rot. ]
The blood shed tonight is my selfishness.
[ she isn't trying to be kind. she just doesn't want to drag in unnecessary parties. ]