>>5669896“What would you have me do?” you ask, with a sigh.
“Swear to me an oath, as a Knight Ascendant,” the Novice Fleshweaver demands.
“What?” you reply, balking.
“Swear to me that, if the Princess of Hawksong ask you to do something, and I advise you to do otherwise, you will cede to MY judgement, and not to hers.”
You shift uncomfortably.
“I should surely look at each proposal logically, weigh them independently, and then—”
“Idiot,” the Novice says, though with surprising gentleness and without real malice, “you are a creature of mammalian emotion, and you are pair-bonded. You cannot act logically under those circumstances—it’s absurd even to ask that of you. It is like asking a female in heat not to lift her tail to a male in musth. This is to protect YOU, and your big, stupid DREAM, not merely me.”
You say nothing.
“Swear it,” the Novice beseeches you again.
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