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Video | From the place where the god of death dwells

[ A cheerful young man watches the video today. It might be a little harder to tell, video instead of in-person, but his hair is shining silver and eyes a confident gold. ]

So.

Does anyone know how to catch jellyfish?

... Or perhaps what sort of things a giant turtle would like to eat? Just a thought.

[ Blame China. Only don't, he probably would have asked on his own eventually. ]

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I was thinking more because it has a terrible ruler, but that works as well as anything else, I suppose.

[ Sion laughs, although there is a bit of an edge like he'd rather be crying. Guy doesn't even know, but Sion isn't exactly going to share. ]

I'd like to say, the country was a mess when I got to it.

[ It's still a terrible mess, but that was, as he was learning, something to do more with the location and the world and... too many gears, turning and grinding what they don't need. ]

You don't seem to be helping it all that much.

[Was he about to cry? Please don't let him cry. Solomon wasn't terribly good with crying young monarchs who had apparently helped their nation on the road to destruction because they were terrible at the 'monarch' part. The man wasn't even objecting to Solomon's accusation of being a terrible ruler, for God's sake. No pride left in this one.]

[ It's half act, fortunately. ]

It's slow. Expanding medical knowledge takes time, as does expanding schools so that everyone can have a chance at it.

[ His chin is in his hands tho, and he does sound a little more confident this time. ]

It's safe to walk the streets at least. Well, about as safe as here - mugging and maybe some street harassment will still happen, but there's no worry that your wife or children won't come home because some noble took a liking to them. I've gotten them under that much control, at least.

[Thank God for that.]

Improvements. I'm sure your citizens will feel terribly happy they had a bit of time with schools and safety from muggings after the invasion.

[To be fair, Solomon does realise the situation is certainly more complicated than that. But it doesn't sound like the young man has a very good grasp of his allies and confidants, let alone how to monopolise on the people he claims to educate. A nation doesn't thrive at the hands of one man alone.]

Better they go into battle thinking 'my home is a nice place, I want to keep it', than wailing they don't want to die for those who live their lives doing as they want without thought to those who now have ruined lives due to those actions. An army made of citizens who want to be there is better than one made of unwanted children, or those who were orphaned because their parents looked the wrong way at a noble.

[ He's still talking casually, but there is a bit of an edge when he mentions the wailing, or the unwanted children.

There's more to the mess of why Sion can't trust his aides or nobles than he's really sharing outright today. ]

[Aha. There's an argument. The edge is faint, but it's there, and the first real evidence of something other than tired self-pity. So the question is: is the tired self-pity real and it just took this long to break through, or is it an act? Solomon smiles.]

There is that, of course. Well, maybe you'll get lucky and think of an alternative while you're here.

[And time is paused back home.]

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