( It is a slowly consumed citrus fruit; she picks at it. ) That is an assumption of bad faith. It assumes the dead and the living cannot be civilized. But the dead once were the living. They share affinity.
( And finally, as she discards the peel: ) The territories where dead gather are the territories where they lived. Citadels. Cities. Villages. They are the same. You may have them. I have no interest. I am not a conqueror.
no subject
( It is a slowly consumed citrus fruit; she picks at it. ) That is an assumption of bad faith. It assumes the dead and the living cannot be civilized. But the dead once were the living. They share affinity.
( And finally, as she discards the peel: ) The territories where dead gather are the territories where they lived. Citadels. Cities. Villages. They are the same. You may have them. I have no interest. I am not a conqueror.