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A mahout is a person who trains elephants, and we're on the planet Teng. And I'm not gonna mention the seeing behind me thing, not yet. I wanna use it to cheat at something someday, and Justicars aren't usually too fond of cheating...and while food and shelter sounds great right about now, I'm not sure whether I want to devote my life to being a test subject.
Don't worry, I'm not about to mess with a Prince of Urath. The Exalted are way too powerful and dangerous, and anyway they're way beyond my station. We meet an Exalt, I expect you guys to help me with being as humble and polite and don't-speak-unless-you're-spoken-to as I can possibly get. Different laws apply to them, they're allowed to do stuff like kill you for impertinence if they really feel like it. And now that you mention it...
"Heh...it was kind of a stupid joke, but yes. Um. I thought the Exalted couldn't get sick?"
"He's not sick, he just crashed his ship into a mountainside. He's got some burns and broken bones and internal bleeding and a little bit of radiation poisoning. He didn't cause the epidemic by infecting everyone, the epidemic is here because House Ragara wants us to extradite him and the Golden Lord is refusing. They've got a warship in orbit, and disabling our weather satellites and rendering our entire adult population unable to work is apparently their idea of subtle political pressure...fucking Dynasts."
"...oh. Um. There's...not gonna be a war, is there?"
"No. The Crown Princes can overrule the Golden Lord, and I'm sure they will if they have to...it'll just be tense for a while."
"Good. Opal, I now feel incredibly shallow and selfish but there's no point focusing on stuff you can't do anything about, so, uh...where are my things?"
"...oh. I was hoping we wouldn't have to do this part until you were feeling better. Boot, could you please tell me how a beggar with less than a bit to her name came to have possession of a gold and silver ring set with three precious stones?"
SHIT.
"...It's mine. I got it from my father."
"Boot, that ring is of a unique make. It was reported stolen about a year ago."
Shit.
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