...Mm. Perhaps so, my lord. Might not bolster anyone's confidence in city leadership.
[calmly, addressing the exarch just as lyna does, aster lets his hand fall. he didn't really expect the exarch to take him up on the offer, of course — they'd look like a pair of fools, and that surely means something to the exarch if not necessarily to aster — but all the same...]
That being said — [his low voice turns soft, too soft, as if he means to say something else entirely] — no one's asked you to lock yourself up in that tower, either.
all's good!
[calmly, addressing the exarch just as lyna does, aster lets his hand fall. he didn't really expect the exarch to take him up on the offer, of course — they'd look like a pair of fools, and that surely means something to the exarch if not necessarily to aster — but all the same...]
That being said — [his low voice turns soft, too soft, as if he means to say something else entirely] — no one's asked you to lock yourself up in that tower, either.