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Mar. 1st, 2008 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
uquars_gadgetHelen doesn't know what's hurried everyone, everything, up on her world these past few weeks and it irritates her immensely. After the original politenesses got underway she is allowed to attend the meetings as an assistant (though Pani still escorts her through the corridors, and that upsets her. As if she were a helpess child!) and, in nervous silences after the warlords had left, is asked her opinion on matters.
Helen gives it: she would have, anyways, so why stop because she's been asked?
It is a problem, a big problem, here. The two warlords have been building weapons they should not have the technology, the knowledge (the patience, the insight) to build--and if they go through with their idiocy it is just likely the whole world will feel the effects instead of only their idiot selves. But they are not that far along in the making--the House caught on right in the middle, and now that a treaty has been settled with threats and concessions and--well, honestly, more threats encased in politeness because the Hands are scared and not willing to drag this into years of negotiations.
There are two groups leaving tomorrow to make sure the weapons are dismantled and destroyed, and Helen is going with one of them.
Things are moving too fast: the senior Hands are acting too nervous around her as much as about the situation. Helen is resigned to the fact that there's probably another prophecy fast approaching its fulfilment, and is upset that the Hands aren't doing their jobs well enough to hide it.
But she made a promise over a month ago, so one day she goads Pani into letting her back down into the treasure stores while he gets some notes from his desk, and goes to bring a book into a bar.
Helen gives it: she would have, anyways, so why stop because she's been asked?
It is a problem, a big problem, here. The two warlords have been building weapons they should not have the technology, the knowledge (the patience, the insight) to build--and if they go through with their idiocy it is just likely the whole world will feel the effects instead of only their idiot selves. But they are not that far along in the making--the House caught on right in the middle, and now that a treaty has been settled with threats and concessions and--well, honestly, more threats encased in politeness because the Hands are scared and not willing to drag this into years of negotiations.
There are two groups leaving tomorrow to make sure the weapons are dismantled and destroyed, and Helen is going with one of them.
Things are moving too fast: the senior Hands are acting too nervous around her as much as about the situation. Helen is resigned to the fact that there's probably another prophecy fast approaching its fulfilment, and is upset that the Hands aren't doing their jobs well enough to hide it.
But she made a promise over a month ago, so one day she goads Pani into letting her back down into the treasure stores while he gets some notes from his desk, and goes to bring a book into a bar.
