>>6099378A small pillow hits the dopey-eyed Inquisitor, raising him from his near slumber and alerting him to your much more dignified form, “I still have questions, you will answer them,” You state.
“Can you be quick, please? Come on, It’s like two AM.”
“It is a noble’s prerogative to take as much time as they please. Now tell me, what exactly is the bad blood between the Lord Inquisitor and my father? It feels as if they’re trying to both use me as some sort of pawn in a game I have no knowledge of, neither rules or sides.”
Asher slumps even more, “Jesus Christ, you woke me up at two to talk about <span class="mu-i">politics</span>?! I thought I made it pretty clear I’m not usually a part of all that.”
“Then answer the question to the best of your ability.”
“Fine, whatever,” He says as he rubs his eyes and begins to use the pillow you’re through as some sort of fidgeting instrument, much like you often do with your stiletto, “Look, the Lord Inquisitors, weird. Like really weird, most people who work with him end up disliking him in one way or the other. But I’ve known him long enough to know he’s a good person, or at least he tries to do good things, even if he can be rather pragmatic about it. Type of guy that’d gladly let an orphanage burn down to save a city-”
“What?”
“That was a bizarre analogy, personal experience?” Marie asks.
“What!? No! It’s just- Ugh, fuck off and let me finish. The Lord Inquisitor is always working towards one plot or another; sometimes, that involves sending a kid over to kill the Demon Lord. Sometimes, it’s poaching a princess from the military. So I can’t say exactly what he wants with you, but I can say it’s probably for a good cause.”
“That was a rather unsure answer to the question, but what about father? Why would he dislike the Lord Inquisitor other than him being weird? Father is strict but not nearly so ignorant to dismiss a man for that alone.”
“Look, princess, you know the King far better than I, a mere lowly peasant. But what I know from an outside context is that the Kings rather conservative, didn’t like strangetech or even new technology that originates from this world, doesn’t like change, doesn’t like the peasantry, doesn’t like a lot of things, you get the picture.”
You open your mouth to argue with a finger raised, but over the course of a few second that finger wilts adn you lose your words, eventually settling with, “My father is not a bad king.”
“Never said he was. I’d bet money the reason you have to sneak out is because he actually loves you and doesn’t want you to get hurt. Not many kingdoms nowadays can claim to have a king that actually cares about their kids. Still, between him and the Lord Inquisitor, those are two personalities that are going to clash.”
