Thank you, [ comes the answer, and it's not a mockery — she means it. there's much to do, after all, right now, with Ysverai and the heart and everything it might lead to.
she'll do her best not to waste his time, and so she looks at him and says, ]
I want to help you. [ she's given thought to this, done her research, asked around of different forms of government, of peace, of what kept it and what didn't. of common folk, of how they were doing, whether it was only the richest who the society cared about, or everyone. she'd been blind to all of this, once, and only seen it in King's Landing when she realized how terribly Cersei and Joffrey treated the people, and even when they'd taken back Winterfell she couldn't do much, could only help her people, the people of the North, to the best of her ability.
she thinks she could have done better. she thinks they can do better, here. ]
I think you're right, Simwe and Shanrian don't care about the people, not all the people. For much of my life, I was blind, I cared about my family and little else, and then for years I couldn't care about anything, only trying to stay alive. But I saw how the queen made the people suffer, I saw them suffer in the North when I returned home.
[ she breathes in, out. ] We can do better, here. We should do better. And you had people to help you, before, didn't you? [ she remembers what Grantaire spoke of his friends, the revolution. she remembers the memory she unwittingly witnessed. ]
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she'll do her best not to waste his time, and so she looks at him and says, ]
I want to help you. [ she's given thought to this, done her research, asked around of different forms of government, of peace, of what kept it and what didn't. of common folk, of how they were doing, whether it was only the richest who the society cared about, or everyone. she'd been blind to all of this, once, and only seen it in King's Landing when she realized how terribly Cersei and Joffrey treated the people, and even when they'd taken back Winterfell she couldn't do much, could only help her people, the people of the North, to the best of her ability.
she thinks she could have done better. she thinks they can do better, here. ]
I think you're right, Simwe and Shanrian don't care about the people, not all the people. For much of my life, I was blind, I cared about my family and little else, and then for years I couldn't care about anything, only trying to stay alive. But I saw how the queen made the people suffer, I saw them suffer in the North when I returned home.
[ she breathes in, out. ] We can do better, here. We should do better. And you had people to help you, before, didn't you? [ she remembers what Grantaire spoke of his friends, the revolution. she remembers the memory she unwittingly witnessed. ]