>>5575713This line of reasoning is alien to you. You would never abandon the Master Race outright, nor turn against them and bring them to ruin as she does by helping you. They are flawed, and you are a mixed breed, but they ARE your people, ultimately. Still, you see no reason to make her question this self-serving and seditious ideology, which so well serves your purposes.
And yet…
“But you sseemed ill-disposed to Roth and my mother, called Rossssgard. You really have no PERSSONAL grievancce or grudge?”
There is a period of pointed silence, the Archmage’s grip tightening noticeably upon the scalpel which she was just taken up in one weathered hand.
“Do I strike you, lizard, as the overly-emotional type?” she asks, still not turning to face you. “Other things take precedence over petty grudges… The advancement of my art, my transcendence…”
“The demonic hold upon your sssoul, even now?”
That catches her AND Roth by surprise.
“What do you mean?” your father asks.
“She never mentioned purging herself of the influence of the demon,” you note. “She would surely have done sso if it wass posssible… Unlesss, even with nobody pulling the ssstringsss, the lingering shadow of that entity ssstill influenccced her behaviour unonsciousssly.”
The Archmage turns to face you, narrowing her eyes in renewed scrutiny.
“Some of your mother’s cleverness lives in you after all, then,” she says tersely. “I was beginning to think she’d herself a lizard without guile, with how few questions you ask in my office or on the way down. But, no. You’re wrong.”
