RE: The Ballad of Adler Young, Canto 2.5
10-12-2021, 10:00 AM
>Adler: Firstly, the method of controlling the time skips Ash gave you didn't work. Did Ash withhold a step. Did he somehow manage to lie?
>Ash: Oh, but it did work. Was Adler sent decades into the future again? No, it was merely a fortnight. Like any skill Adler will need to practice before he perfects it. Surely you don't need to explain that to him. Once he gets the method down he will be able to step forward with as much or as little time passes as he pleases. He will not be able to go back in time and you would caution him from trying, down that path lies madness. *Your tone becomes somewhat irritated* Also, you may be many things, but above all you are first and foremost an elf and elves DO NOT LIE. You would ask Adler have the common courtesy to never imply that of you again.
>Adler: You next question, Why did Ash work against you? Why did he allow the rabbits to cut you off from the world like they did? If Ash wants to be pardoned back into Faerie surely it would expedote the process not to put you in shackles. Not to mention to stay in your good graces.
>Ash: Simple. Adler never told you not to, and this places you in a position with more leverage than you had before. During your entire lengthy tirade of all the flimsy ways you could possibly ruin Adler he never once considered that you might have been obfuscating what you could do that actually would work? You made it clear that you had put extensive thought into a double-cross and he didn't even send spies after you. How many times has Adler stuck deals with or cooperated with unseelie elves and how many times has it blown up in his face? Adler really should read that book you gave him. Even if Adler does have enough conviction to stay on the Seelie path, at the very least it would benefit Adler to know how the unseelie think and the methods they would use to stab him in the back. He can't just rely on luck anymore, otherwise he will keep ending in places exactly like where he is now. If Adler is to be emperor, he better wise up.
>Ash: Oh, but it did work. Was Adler sent decades into the future again? No, it was merely a fortnight. Like any skill Adler will need to practice before he perfects it. Surely you don't need to explain that to him. Once he gets the method down he will be able to step forward with as much or as little time passes as he pleases. He will not be able to go back in time and you would caution him from trying, down that path lies madness. *Your tone becomes somewhat irritated* Also, you may be many things, but above all you are first and foremost an elf and elves DO NOT LIE. You would ask Adler have the common courtesy to never imply that of you again.
>Adler: You next question, Why did Ash work against you? Why did he allow the rabbits to cut you off from the world like they did? If Ash wants to be pardoned back into Faerie surely it would expedote the process not to put you in shackles. Not to mention to stay in your good graces.
>Ash: Simple. Adler never told you not to, and this places you in a position with more leverage than you had before. During your entire lengthy tirade of all the flimsy ways you could possibly ruin Adler he never once considered that you might have been obfuscating what you could do that actually would work? You made it clear that you had put extensive thought into a double-cross and he didn't even send spies after you. How many times has Adler stuck deals with or cooperated with unseelie elves and how many times has it blown up in his face? Adler really should read that book you gave him. Even if Adler does have enough conviction to stay on the Seelie path, at the very least it would benefit Adler to know how the unseelie think and the methods they would use to stab him in the back. He can't just rely on luck anymore, otherwise he will keep ending in places exactly like where he is now. If Adler is to be emperor, he better wise up.