"I'm not sure it's luck so much as I grew up very safe, in a small community." She smiles wryly. "I don't think I ever heard an unkind word among my own people."
She frowns, considering what he says about war, and nods slowly. It reminds her that she can't really expect removing the Emperor to be a linchpin that will turn all the other skeksis in to their friends. The Chamberlain, for one, is his own kind of dangerous. "Either battle or die, you mean," she says. "I don't want to die."
She can tell from his expression he's struggling as much as she is to adjust to these unfamiliar concepts, and that makes her smile, half-relieved, half just friendly. "We're all part of Thra," she says, hoping maybe that will help him make sense of it. "One planet."
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She frowns, considering what he says about war, and nods slowly. It reminds her that she can't really expect removing the Emperor to be a linchpin that will turn all the other skeksis in to their friends. The Chamberlain, for one, is his own kind of dangerous. "Either battle or die, you mean," she says. "I don't want to die."
She can tell from his expression he's struggling as much as she is to adjust to these unfamiliar concepts, and that makes her smile, half-relieved, half just friendly. "We're all part of Thra," she says, hoping maybe that will help him make sense of it. "One planet."