Leaving aside that that would likely be a better starting point given the potential fluidity of territory, the ability to include or exclude on a selective basis, and the fact that those here are entirely reliant on this world's gods, I would like you to remember this is barely my third morning here, and my second was spent facing the death of my entire people and the world I loved.
. . . I know what it is to not have a home. To have an origin, even a family, but no place of your own. And I fault neither your ambition nor your desire to build one yourself, even if it means carving it out with your own hands.
But if you would use Gilbert for that foundation, please come to know him well enough so as to tell, on your own, when you are presenting him with a choice to which he has no actual ability to say 'no'.
If you would make him your family, at least try, first, to be his friend.
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Leaving aside that that would likely be a better starting point given the potential fluidity of territory, the ability to include or exclude on a selective basis, and the fact that those here are entirely reliant on this world's gods, I would like you to remember this is barely my third morning here, and my second was spent facing the death of my entire people and the world I loved.
. . . I know what it is to not have a home. To have an origin, even a family, but no place of your own. And I fault neither your ambition nor your desire to build one yourself, even if it means carving it out with your own hands.
But if you would use Gilbert for that foundation, please come to know him well enough so as to tell, on your own, when you are presenting him with a choice to which he has no actual ability to say 'no'.
If you would make him your family, at least try, first, to be his friend.