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[outsidebones]

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[outsidebones]

Duty? It is a concept one only learns when one has experienced the consequences of neglecting it.

[ktiseos]

I do not know that I would necessarily say so. My people have always held our duty in high regard, and we have not experienced those consequences... but others in these places often seem to find a dedication to duty strange.

[outsidebones]

They do. They often suggest it can be given up or traded for one's personal happiness.

[a sigh.]

That the Ninth House is strong will always come first before anything I might wish for myself, because I know what would be lost, to see them suffer or fall. That is what I mean by the consequences - something greater than myself that I could not bear to see lost.

[ktiseos]

And despite a dedication to that greater concept, they will still ask what one wants for themselves, as if that cannot possibly be it.

[a slight shake of his head, there.]

I could not bear to see my own people fall, either. There is nothing that could come before the well-being of Etheirys.

[outsidebones]

Or as though it is wrong, to have such a priority.

[ktiseos]

Precisely so. It is highly short-sighted of them, though I suppose this to be a consequence of the mortal lifespan.

[outsidebones]

I have lived only eighteen years, and I understand it.

[ktiseos]

You appear to be something of an exception, in that respect.