November 3, 632 AR
[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]
She looks at me with those eyes, that curl of her lip, and she dares to ask me if I'm still feeling tweaked.
I am not tweaked. I have risen as high as a man can in this forsaken hell of a country. I am King of Atsiria. I sit on your Council as Joseph Eshene. I'm at the right hand of two Houses at once -- the two most powerful Houses in Atsiria! And I can slit the throat of the Jewel of the Desert fifty times a day if I chose to. I killed your first husband so that I would have this position, Your Majesty.
I am not tweaked. I am angry.
... it's Reiz. He's the source of so much --
Something has to be done. I won't bear it. I won't.
She looks at me with those eyes, that curl of her lip, and she dares to ask me if I'm still feeling tweaked.
I am not tweaked. I have risen as high as a man can in this forsaken hell of a country. I am King of Atsiria. I sit on your Council as Joseph Eshene. I'm at the right hand of two Houses at once -- the two most powerful Houses in Atsiria! And I can slit the throat of the Jewel of the Desert fifty times a day if I chose to. I killed your first husband so that I would have this position, Your Majesty.
I am not tweaked. I am angry.
... it's Reiz. He's the source of so much --
Something has to be done. I won't bear it. I won't.