'Peace and prosperity.' That's Emeran. And then Tayrey repeats it in Japanese - she didn't spend that long around Nobunaga and not pick up that much. Again, in Sector Standard. In Company Standard, same language family, different in the details. In Siduri'in. In Čiprijan. Then, finally, with spacer hand signals, hands brought together as if cradling something precious, then spread outward in abundance.
A moment later, back to Emeran, soberly. 'You're right that I don't think you'll get it. About the ship - because we've discussed that enough times, it's an irreconcilable clash of values and priorities and I'm not... I'm not saying you can't have yours. I'm respecting yours, by not talking about it. By not going on about what it's like to have everything I worked for reduced in your mind to fucking around, because it's your right to have that opinion. I've just gotta step back and let you have that freedom, Erin. It's alright. But I don't want to talk about it. It's all too painful.'
She sighs. 'The rest... what I'm reading is you telling me there's something wrong with my beliefs about gifts and fair contract. Not just that you don't share them, but that you're suggesting I ought to abandon them to- to fit in. If that's not what you were signalling, not the conclusion I was meant to draw from that, then I'll hear correction.'
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'Peace and prosperity.' That's Emeran. And then Tayrey repeats it in Japanese - she didn't spend that long around Nobunaga and not pick up that much. Again, in Sector Standard. In Company Standard, same language family, different in the details. In Siduri'in. In Čiprijan. Then, finally, with spacer hand signals, hands brought together as if cradling something precious, then spread outward in abundance.
A moment later, back to Emeran, soberly. 'You're right that I don't think you'll get it. About the ship - because we've discussed that enough times, it's an irreconcilable clash of values and priorities and I'm not... I'm not saying you can't have yours. I'm respecting yours, by not talking about it. By not going on about what it's like to have everything I worked for reduced in your mind to fucking around, because it's your right to have that opinion. I've just gotta step back and let you have that freedom, Erin. It's alright. But I don't want to talk about it. It's all too painful.'
She sighs. 'The rest... what I'm reading is you telling me there's something wrong with my beliefs about gifts and fair contract. Not just that you don't share them, but that you're suggesting I ought to abandon them to- to fit in. If that's not what you were signalling, not the conclusion I was meant to draw from that, then I'll hear correction.'