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I put my hands on the table and try to make myself take this man seriously. Out of a momentary fancy, I create a light blue flame beside my head, as a kind of a show of personal power. "Captain de Bracy, are you insinuating that your General considers the aid of a nation, one that has just recently gotten past a civil war, to be worth enough to me that I would give sizable chunks of land in exchange for it?"
Before he can reply, I lift up a hand and snuff out the flame, rubbing my fingers at each other and faux-hesitantly saying: "If he does, he has a point. With Stromgarde and Alterac ready to declare war on Hesperia, Lordaeron's zealot-king is sure to join in. What's more, my current ally, the Admiral of Kul Tiras, does not seem nearly as powerful a ruler as I'd like to think..."
I stand up and look out the window, pretending to be worrying for my citizens. "A war is coming; there is no way out of it. Hesperia will either be the first lamb to be slaughtered, or otherwise she will be the hawk that swoops in and gouges the eyes of its hunter, the lion that leads its pack to take down a stronger prey, the wolf which prevails despite its wounds, the scorpion that kills a predator ten times its size..." The animal symbolism of the Four Gods is evident in my speech, as well as the Lightists' tendency to describe their martyrs as sacrificial lambs. I turn to look at de Bracy.
"The sides have all but formed now, and I do not want to be forced onto the losing one. You will have the Kingdom of Gilneas' former lands in Silverpine, if you promise to defend Hesperia against a Lordaeronian attack that might come through Silverpine, as well as aid her in her other battles."
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