I find it difficult to accept those who believe they have dominion over death.
[ A tight pause. ]
... But my measure of him would make it difficult to begrudge him, with or without your word, Master Lan.
[ Another pause, and then, unprompted: ]
He reads to me more of the scholar or the doctor than he does the manipulating councilor or blood-thirsty general. [ Little does he know. ] But such knowledge is easily twisted by those who would use it to oppress those beneath them. However well meaning the gathering of that knowledge is.
no subject
[ A tight pause. ]
... But my measure of him would make it difficult to begrudge him, with or without your word, Master Lan.
[ Another pause, and then, unprompted: ]
He reads to me more of the scholar or the doctor than he does the manipulating councilor or blood-thirsty general. [ Little does he know. ] But such knowledge is easily twisted by those who would use it to oppress those beneath them. However well meaning the gathering of that knowledge is.