2024-07-18 - [6.6] Anger

Courth only realises something is happening because he also realises he is shaking.

’It is not the ground, idiot, there’s no quake…’

He keeps shaking until the pair are torn apart and only then does he scoff in the safety of knowing the event is over – but not at them.

Ansith’s rage had seemed justified, to Courth, and not something made up like Gwillanth suggests. If people have problems they need to speak them upfront, not ‘slink’ about and speak about them behind other people’s backs. How would a wing fly, if all of a sudden no one trusted one individual but they wouldn’t say why? How can you fix a mistake if you do not know the mistake exists? It seems unfair, to cast him as a villain but not give him the chance to get better.

If you didn’t give someone the chance, they seemed more likely to double down, as the blue had done.

But…Utaibath had seemed so sure. Courth chafes at the idea of his decisions being taken from him already, in the shell where he has so few things to do, what would it be like out there? With so all the best rider options taken, and then that rider having her choices taken from her?

Simple. Don’t impress to a ‘girlie’. That decision seems satisfactory, an easy answer reached quickly based on the evidence presented to him and not all in a rushed way to get the uncomfortable event out of his mind.