"Hope and pray Tevinter doesn't get this far is a good place to start."
It's bone dry, but there's something like a snip of humor lurking very low behind the eyes. He's being serious; but also, he realizes it's a shitheel kind of answer to a perfectly legitimate point.
So, less so:
"You can't make them smart. You can only make them ready. So forget trying to get anyone to take it seriously. Make a game of it, if you have to. If they don't find defending themselves from the Venatori compelling, put them in competition with one another instead.
"Frankly," he says, nipping a drink from his cup. "Having everyone in the company lying awake in their beds at night contemplating the semantics of being overrun will only exhaust the company. Better to do that thinking for them."
A significant look and a tilt of the cup in Barrow's direction almost looks like affirmation. Being the most concerned person in the room is a sign he's doing his job.
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It's bone dry, but there's something like a snip of humor lurking very low behind the eyes. He's being serious; but also, he realizes it's a shitheel kind of answer to a perfectly legitimate point.
So, less so:
"You can't make them smart. You can only make them ready. So forget trying to get anyone to take it seriously. Make a game of it, if you have to. If they don't find defending themselves from the Venatori compelling, put them in competition with one another instead.
"Frankly," he says, nipping a drink from his cup. "Having everyone in the company lying awake in their beds at night contemplating the semantics of being overrun will only exhaust the company. Better to do that thinking for them."
A significant look and a tilt of the cup in Barrow's direction almost looks like affirmation. Being the most concerned person in the room is a sign he's doing his job.