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[ohmygodgreywardens]

I preferred the old books better. [This thing is being folded every which way, because they just had to make this thing harder to use.] At least you knew where you stood with them. The old books never changed; they might never have been easy to use, but they you knew what you were supposed to do with them.

[Is he talking about the book, still? Maybe, maybe not.] With all this talk of the Initiative and the United Earth issues, there's been something that's come up several times. Something I would be worried about, and so should others.

Traitors. Those who turned away from the goal right when their colleagues needed them most. Or the ones who never came to help in the first place, though they said they would. Traitors also includes liars. Yes. Liars. The ones who never tell the truth, especially when the truth could be the information you needed the most.

[He's getting exasperated with this new book.] I wonder, how did everyone else treat liars back home? In Ferelden, we had several ways of punishing those that had committed crimes against the crown, or those who'd lied and were caught. Some of them seemed rather harsh, but if someone who steals loses a finger, why not have the liar lose something as well? Something they value, something close to them, so that they can be hurt as much as they have hurt those around them.

So, how should we treat those liars, here? If we find traitors, what do we do with them? A mock execution, whipping, leaving them bound and gagged in a small room? Killing them would just be too merciful for what they've done, wouldn't it? [He pauses.]

Andraste's foul breath, this new book is more difficult then the other! [Okay, he's done with this book thing. With a yell, he throws it across the room.]

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[ohmygodgreywardens]

[Sounds like home.] What's a Slaugh?

[sithiche]

Ugly things. Rejected by heaven and hell and by the earth itself is what people say. They're not exactly keen on telling you much about themselves, anyway. They just make it pretty clear that they enjoy pain and suffering, and the longer that their playthings will last, the more they delight in it.

[ohmygodgreywardens]

Are they beings that stay where they are, or do you ever go and fight them?

[sithiche]

The Queen has something of an arrangement with them, so we're supposed to live them be unless they start getting uppity. I've avoided them, myself.

[ohmygodgreywardens]

[Hm.] What sort of arrangement?

[sithiche]

Something about us not hunting them if they don't hunt us, I believe.

[ohmygodgreywardens]

...No one would take such a thing seriously, would they? You can't keep a treaty with someone like that.

[sithiche]

I think there's some intimidation involved too.

[ohmygodgreywardens]

On who's side?

[sithiche]

The side that gets them at her majesty's beck and call.

[ohmygodgreywardens]

If I was back home, I would not stand for such an alliance.

[sithiche]

I'm not in a position to argue with it.

[ohmygodgreywardens]

What position are you in?

[sithiche]

One where I don't make a show of questioning my elders if I want to keep my head.

[ohmygodgreywardens]

Without questions, how will they ever learn?

[sithiche]

[ He gives a laugh at that, though it's a faintly bitter one. ]

I'm fairly sure that at that age, you have either realized that you will never know everything, or are convinced that there is nothing left for you to learn. My guess is that in her case, it's the latter.

[ohmygodgreywardens]

..Yes. I can see how that is.