[She can't quite keep the look of disgust from flickering across her face as Nigel mentions the word technologies; it's the sort of word that always seems to go hand-in-hand with machines, and her innate abhorrence of the mechanical--a sentiment that all people from her world share, and yet very few in the City seem to--is one that she's never been able to shake, no matter how much time she spends in a place where they come so readily accepted.]
They're ugly things anyway, machines. They're...unnatural.
[But she soon shakes that off, not wanting to linger on unpleasant thoughts, and the smile returns to her face.]
Mother and Daddy always taught me much the same, you know. The duty of a good ruler is to serve the people, no matter what, and if danger should befall the kingdom... [She pauses suddenly, but only for a moment.] Well. If there's a sacrifice to be made, the ruler is the one with the duty to make it. The people and the kingdom come first. That's what it means to be a proper princess...or king, or queen, or anything of the like.
you cannot map the ways of divinity;
They're ugly things anyway, machines. They're...unnatural.
[But she soon shakes that off, not wanting to linger on unpleasant thoughts, and the smile returns to her face.]
Mother and Daddy always taught me much the same, you know. The duty of a good ruler is to serve the people, no matter what, and if danger should befall the kingdom... [She pauses suddenly, but only for a moment.] Well. If there's a sacrifice to be made, the ruler is the one with the duty to make it. The people and the kingdom come first. That's what it means to be a proper princess...or king, or queen, or anything of the like.