☀️ Arselia and Akonia

- It is a wise approach, and I agree that sometimes a situation must be accepted as it is, - she nodded, casting a thoughtful glance at Guion. - But still, we cannot know how much time is allotted to each mortal; it could be days, or it could be decades, and so we suffer in ignorance - she smiled apologetically.
 - I would like to know how he is doing, if he is recovering, and when he will return, - Guion supported his spouse. - We owe him a great deal.
 - And not just us. I think all of Margel, or perhaps all of Velfern, if not all of Anuzish, - Beata wrinkled her nose, remembering Rinze.

—Yes, I recently finished reading the last one. —nodded the knight, who was incapable of feeling awkwardness. —Hmm... I started making short notes on each monarch, but I haven't finished yet. Of those I liked most... Perhaps Sillion, the wizard-king. You know, once in a philosophers' circle, the topic of the ideal ruler came up, and I then, without knowing it, described a personality quite similar to him. I won't go into too much detail so as not to spoil your interest. What was he lacking? Perhaps only immortality. —flipping through a few pages of his diary, he stopped at other names. —As for the interesting ones... For me, "ambiguous" personalities fall into this category. It would be curious to hear your opinion on Delsahid and Hatey. I got a clear feeling that the historians left something out regarding both of them, but what exactly?.. I understand Saikama on a human level; it is hard to be constantly torn between duty and one's soul. And that Tenth monarch, through his political decisions, touches upon very complex moral questions for me regarding the justification of means to achieve a noble goal. As for the others, they can basically be split into one side or another, but maybe you can tell me later what I missed...

-- Ah, well then yes. I still have the thought that in a secular institution, not everyone may consider competitions of religious imagery appropriate... But, you know better? In the case of a large number of required drawings, the solution is elegant; Sir Lamarck speaks sense—can we not additionally emphasize that the competition is optional and hold it at a special time after classes to observe all proprieties.

- Someone else might have been flattered; people are different. But in me, it would evoke a grimace of coldness and disgust. But that is irrelevant to the matter at hand. Do you sell these specific works of yours or publish them somewhere for public viewing? Perhaps you inform your muse that you have finished another manuscript? If so, you are committing a morally low and legally questionable act. But if not, it does not concern her personally. The unspoken and undone remains as such. You can be persuaded, or, let's say, have your hands chopped off and eyes gouged out, and that would solve the problem. But any number of other people could be doing the same—we will never know and cannot control it. Therefore, the question remains in the same aforementioned plane—do you yourself consider such use of her image unworthy of your muse? If you are interested in the opinion of Anuzish or Kami—they don't care; the other question is what your conscience will say. It depends on your personal values. For a person who advocates for absolute freedom of self-expression and artistic value even in such generally "low" aspects of it, you nevertheless experienced uncharacteristic doubt in this story, which means that in some way, it seems wrong to you. But if you still cannot decide for yourself whether this is something bad, then I have a mirror question for you—try to imagine, for example, your mother or sister under the gaze of some man performing all these deeds. How would that make you feel?