He's still not going to be seeing that from the outside, Need doesn't point out. She knows how to stabilize and transfer and re-anchor a mind and soul, whether that's into flesh and blood that can support them or into something like a sword, but she's not going to just promise something like that in these circumstances.
:It won't. There will be a price for my help, though. I don't imagine it's something you wouldn't agree to, or I wouldn't have come. She'll have to agree to it too and I don't feel like explaining it twice. You can talk to her first, even if you decide against my assistance afterwards and I go back to Velgarth.: I am such a soft heart, Need grumbles to herself.
-all right, one good thing about this situation. Palamedes and Camilla come from a culture that in most respects appalls Need's sensibilities but is not patriarchal. There's some remnants of that to the Blood of Eden people - she is snooping without fear or shame - but they're also almost Kaled'a'in-level egalitarian as far as gender and sexuality go. Huh.
There are still people that her mandate applies to. She's never visited a dimension or a world or whatever she cares to call it that has no systemic oppression, no one exploited and misused with impunity by someone who has power over them. They exist somewhere, she hopes.
:Now I want you to envision your left hand. Imagine I'm taking it and wrapping it around hers on my hilt. You can speak when that contact is there.:
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:It won't. There will be a price for my help, though. I don't imagine it's something you wouldn't agree to, or I wouldn't have come. She'll have to agree to it too and I don't feel like explaining it twice. You can talk to her first, even if you decide against my assistance afterwards and I go back to Velgarth.: I am such a soft heart, Need grumbles to herself.
-all right, one good thing about this situation. Palamedes and Camilla come from a culture that in most respects appalls Need's sensibilities but is not patriarchal. There's some remnants of that to the Blood of Eden people - she is snooping without fear or shame - but they're also almost Kaled'a'in-level egalitarian as far as gender and sexuality go. Huh.
There are still people that her mandate applies to. She's never visited a dimension or a world or whatever she cares to call it that has no systemic oppression, no one exploited and misused with impunity by someone who has power over them. They exist somewhere, she hopes.
:Now I want you to envision your left hand. Imagine I'm taking it and wrapping it around hers on my hilt. You can speak when that contact is there.: