Right, after a lot of talking we've left it at they agree that it wasn't us who sent people into their territory so they won't hold it against us, and we agree to do what we can to prevent future intrusions. I said that we don't have the authority to keep people out of the forest, they said we better well try and if it happens again we'll have shown we don't have the power to follow through on any of the things we've been offering, I said we never claimed to have that power yet, and we went round about in circles for the next four hours.
I didn't dare bring up what they did to Sam. There's nothing we could have asked them for that would help to ease what happened to her, especially if Poppy thinks things are that bad, and there's no way we could have got them to concede that future accidental incursions should be dealt with more gently. Although, Firenze did say it was a group of the young hotheads who found them, and that "they did not consider certain interactions of Mars and Venus before acting", which I interpreted as, even centaurs have young adults who do idiotic and impulsive things. It wasn't an apology, or a promise to act differently in the future, but I got the feeling Firenze was just as irritated with them as we are with the ISS when they do something stupid and impulsive even though he was trying to (was forced to?) justify their actions.
Which, you know, is not really worth much, not held up against what they did to Sam, but still. I guess I'll have to hope that you're right, and she does have the kind of ruthlessness that can bounce back from something like this without too much long-term trauma. Which is a weird thing to hope for, really.
Merlin's manky underpants, my head hurts now. What a day.
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Date: 2014-03-25 08:46 pm (UTC)I didn't dare bring up what they did to Sam. There's nothing we could have asked them for that would help to ease what happened to her, especially if Poppy thinks things are that bad, and there's no way we could have got them to concede that future accidental incursions should be dealt with more gently. Although, Firenze did say it was a group of the young hotheads who found them, and that "they did not consider certain interactions of Mars and Venus before acting", which I interpreted as, even centaurs have young adults who do idiotic and impulsive things. It wasn't an apology, or a promise to act differently in the future, but I got the feeling Firenze was just as irritated with them as we are with the ISS when they do something stupid and impulsive even though he was trying to (was forced to?) justify their actions.
Which, you know, is not really worth much, not held up against what they did to Sam, but still. I guess I'll have to hope that you're right, and she does have the kind of ruthlessness that can bounce back from something like this without too much long-term trauma. Which is a weird thing to hope for, really.
Merlin's manky underpants, my head hurts now. What a day.