[This time she really has to keep from sighing. She takes advantage of the pause to try and find the best way to explain it to him.]
Because if the company was only warriors and fighters, even if they turned out to not be what they first appeared, they could not take advantage of you by ripping your still-beating heart out of your chest and using it to enslave you. Or trapping you with a curse that ravages your homeland. Or turning you into some kind of deadly, hideous beast.
[Though she does her best to keep her voice even, she does grow a little...heated as she gives out those examples. It's probably pretty obvious they're far from random, and rather personal.]
All who live and breathe are capable of betrayal. But where I come from, those who practice magic are often the least trustworthy of all. [Pause.] I try not let that color too strongly the way I see you and some of the others here. I don't always know if I succeed.
The worst a man, or woman, who fights with their hands can do to you when they prove a villain is put a dagger in your back. But what one who wields magic could do if they desired is far worse indeed.
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Because if the company was only warriors and fighters, even if they turned out to not be what they first appeared, they could not take advantage of you by ripping your still-beating heart out of your chest and using it to enslave you. Or trapping you with a curse that ravages your homeland. Or turning you into some kind of deadly, hideous beast.
[Though she does her best to keep her voice even, she does grow a little...heated as she gives out those examples. It's probably pretty obvious they're far from random, and rather personal.]
All who live and breathe are capable of betrayal. But where I come from, those who practice magic are often the least trustworthy of all. [Pause.] I try not let that color too strongly the way I see you and some of the others here. I don't always know if I succeed.
The worst a man, or woman, who fights with their hands can do to you when they prove a villain is put a dagger in your back. But what one who wields magic could do if they desired is far worse indeed.