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[winecasks]

[ Grantaire is where he usually is, huddled off with his wine in the corner of a tavern somewhere in Wyver. He doesn’t seem to be too far into this endeavor, considering he’s plenty eloquent when he decides to make a speech to the network.

It’s less than rousing. It's mostly complaints. ]

All this talk of politics has made me weary, friends. To be frank, I hardly understand it at all. I have listened. I drink, it’s true, but I listen. My ears are far better than my eyes or my memory, and no one ever tunes their conversation to exclude the fellow enjoying his drink in the corner.

[ This much seems to be true, given how he’s been rambling at length and no one has bothered to silence him. There’s chatter in the background as people enjoy their own conversations, separate from him as he drinks from the bottle. ]

I have heard things. Things about how the first to wake were welcomed gladly by Olympia, and others still were welcomed by Wyver later on. My ears are fine and well, I assure you, but my mind is perhaps foggy. It cannot comprehend what happened to create this change. Politics. Surely that is the only answer. It always is.

[ He rolls his eyes, taking another drink. ]

Well, I’ll not partake in any of it. I have no love for one city over another, no love for a king over an empress. I do not disdain monarchy, though I do not disdain those who do. I simply disdain politics. Tell me why I should choose one side or another, or why I should change my mind on the matter.

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[triplerose]

I cannot imagine him to be so unnecessarily mean.

[ Well. He can, actually. Renly has a terrible habit of saying things that he thinks are funny or clever without considering his words. ]

He's never said as much in my presence.

[bruxisms]

Do you speak the truth, or are you attempting to make a man you care about appear better?

[ he would like to believe that the "Renly Baratheon" he knows is perhaps a better man than the one Stannis knew. though, he cannot help but wonder what it was that changed (and where Stannis went wrong where this "other" Stannis seemed to go right) if that were the case. ]

[triplerose]

I'm not unaware of his shortcomings.

[ The words are clipped. Loras can't blame Stannis for the accusation. Loras has stuck by Renly through everything, but he believes, truly, in the character of the youngest Baratheon. ]

I'm sorry that the brother you remember was cruel. But you love him, as you said. Maybe it's best for all of us to try and look to the present rather than the past.

[ It's hard to say. Loras doesn't like to play the diplomat, but he remembers, back when he first arrived, that he and Stannis had spoken without argument. They've a common ground, and a chance now to try and right old wrongs. This fighting is growing exhausting. ]

[bruxisms]

"Thoughtless and unable to understand the consequences of his actions" might be a more apt description. He took after our eldest brother far more than I would have liked.

[ as to what he says next... ]

...Perhaps. Be that as it may, it is difficult to forget some slights.

[ for if Stannis Baratheon is known for anything, it is his inability to forget. and to bring up years old grudges to those barely related to the matter ]