[Before this can launch a debate, Aral lifts a hand.]
As there seems to be much to discuss, and there's one uninvolved soul on this floor [Who was undoubtedly trying to sleep through all of this drama.] perhaps we should move downstairs.
[Where there are chairs. And less of a standing battlefield and more like a reception.]
Yeah. We ought to be talking about this over tea, I think.
[ Though she points thereafter at Miles. ]
And that is a vile thing to say. It's one thing to lie to protect yourself. It's another altogether to lie to make people like you more. The one isn't real dishonesty, because you're not really deceiving anyone. But appropriating that horrid story - appropriating the suffering of others - to make yourself sympathetic is simply horrid.
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As there seems to be much to discuss, and there's one uninvolved soul on this floor [Who was undoubtedly trying to sleep through all of this drama.] perhaps we should move downstairs.
[Where there are chairs. And less of a standing battlefield and more like a reception.]
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Yeah. We ought to be talking about this over tea, I think.
[ Though she points thereafter at Miles. ]
And that is a vile thing to say. It's one thing to lie to protect yourself. It's another altogether to lie to make people like you more. The one isn't real dishonesty, because you're not really deceiving anyone. But appropriating that horrid story - appropriating the suffering of others - to make yourself sympathetic is simply horrid.
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Tactics take precedence in the end.
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[He casts a look at Gregor and Miles.] You'll have to point me to the tea.
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[ Just going to lead Aral out and down the stairs and toward the kitchen, leaving the argument behind, if possible. ]