I'm not dismissing you. I'm saying that you don't understand this, though, being the target.
[There's a short pause and his voice gets less stern and faintly amused.]
Pretty? That's one I haven't heard in a few years. I don't dismiss things because I'm... pretty, though. I dismiss opinions that don't have the backing of experience. You do not know what it is like to be the hunted target.
[And then the relenting tone is gone.]
You simply do not. It is slavery, being in the Circle. It is oppression, it is the weight of the hatred and fear of nations, of being treated like you're less than a person because in the eyes of the Templars and so many others you are. From birth.
I'll not dismiss your opinion on the topic of being the youngest, or overshadowed, or how tiring it must be to lug around a giant sword. But on the oppression of mages, while you've been there for some, you were not yourself oppressed.
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[There's a short pause and his voice gets less stern and faintly amused.]
Pretty? That's one I haven't heard in a few years. I don't dismiss things because I'm... pretty, though. I dismiss opinions that don't have the backing of experience. You do not know what it is like to be the hunted target.
[And then the relenting tone is gone.]
You simply do not. It is slavery, being in the Circle. It is oppression, it is the weight of the hatred and fear of nations, of being treated like you're less than a person because in the eyes of the Templars and so many others you are. From birth.
I'll not dismiss your opinion on the topic of being the youngest, or overshadowed, or how tiring it must be to lug around a giant sword. But on the oppression of mages, while you've been there for some, you were not yourself oppressed.