"Politics are complicated. It's not necessarily about what I've been led to believe, but what works, what keeps the balance of power between the people and the other nations. A committee is all well and good until one cannot decide on an issue, and an enemy nation seizes the moment of weakness."

But Kelson was not one to talk in terms of stress. He himself had been quite drugged many times when he got moody. "Common folk suffer needlessly due to politics, no matter what it seems." Maybe they should change the subject, Kelson was bound to get moody and depressed. In fact, his mannerisms started shifting the more he thought about it, tensing, eyes far away, thinking of less fun, more depressing things.

But Linhardt said the magic phrase, and Kelson's demeanor changed again, to very excited. "The true history of the Church? Magical inheritance?" He tried to contain his excited, but he was deeply curious about such things too, even if they were bound to be very, very different between worlds. He smiled, "I found the time. You can do both. You just have to ...manage your time and your people."