( Ah, you see, that's the thing, Finn. Sandor rarely ever tries to sound insulting, he just is insulting. It's as natural and as automatic as breathing. It actually takes concentrated effort not to sound insulting, and thus is usually reserved for the royalty of the house he's currently serving. Or Sansa Stark.
Unfortunately for everyone around him, he's a rude and generally awful person. If it's any consolation, it's not personal.
Military conscription piques his interest, and he narrows his eyes thoughtfully. It occurs to him for the first time that were the Free Cities to attack Solvunn, it's very likely they'd win. They could slaughter the smallfolk and farmers easy as slaughtering cattle. Solvunn's got fuck-all for an army that he's seen, save the Summoned who are devout enough to protect them. Devotion rarely does shit in the face of a several-thousand soldier numbers advantage.
He cannot pinpoint why that bothers him, only that it does. )
Aye. Seems like they're pious to their Gods. Seems like their Gods might be more interested in talking back here than they are where I come from.
( This might actually be the first actual back-and-forth of any substance Sandor's had, or at least the one with the least amount of cursing at the person he's conversing with. He does have the capacity to be serious when the time calls for it, and information gathering on war and threats is the time. )
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Unfortunately for everyone around him, he's a rude and generally awful person. If it's any consolation, it's not personal.
Military conscription piques his interest, and he narrows his eyes thoughtfully. It occurs to him for the first time that were the Free Cities to attack Solvunn, it's very likely they'd win. They could slaughter the smallfolk and farmers easy as slaughtering cattle. Solvunn's got fuck-all for an army that he's seen, save the Summoned who are devout enough to protect them. Devotion rarely does shit in the face of a several-thousand soldier numbers advantage.
He cannot pinpoint why that bothers him, only that it does. )
Aye. Seems like they're pious to their Gods. Seems like their Gods might be more interested in talking back here than they are where I come from.
( This might actually be the first actual back-and-forth of any substance Sandor's had, or at least the one with the least amount of cursing at the person he's conversing with. He does have the capacity to be serious when the time calls for it, and information gathering on war and threats is the time. )