[That, he tells her without hesitation. His failings have been shown to him quite clearly, and he will not be yet another Renan noble who shirks responsibility, who does not think that how their deeds effect those beneath them should be taken into consideration. There are enough of those already, and he had been one himself, in the past.]
Perhaps not directly, but I was negligent. I did not see what was happening in my own realm under my rule— and so whether or not these atrocities were committed by my hand directly, it matters not.
[This is a lot to be sharing with a stranger here in the marketplace, perhaps, but even that gives him no pause.]
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[That, he tells her without hesitation. His failings have been shown to him quite clearly, and he will not be yet another Renan noble who shirks responsibility, who does not think that how their deeds effect those beneath them should be taken into consideration. There are enough of those already, and he had been one himself, in the past.]
Perhaps not directly, but I was negligent. I did not see what was happening in my own realm under my rule— and so whether or not these atrocities were committed by my hand directly, it matters not.
[This is a lot to be sharing with a stranger here in the marketplace, perhaps, but even that gives him no pause.]