[If there's one thing you can't quite call Subete in this form, it's humble -- he knows his own reach and his own value, as far as having an idea of exactly what he can do and exactly how to spin it, but just at the moment perhaps his words are a little scattershot, too.
Either way, he's pretty much unrepentant about any of it.]
I'd say I'm surprised they were better-prepared this time, but they have had twenty years' time to prepare. Even an ant can build something vaguely useful in twenty years.
[That's probably an insult to ants?? And there's an airy quality to it, there's so much more to preparedness when it comes to their particular situation and these particular twenty years, but all of it is still vague and slapdash. They've barely begun to touch on the time in between.
He shakes his head, just briefly, but his voice has that same airy quality when he speaks again. The Foundation doesn't exactly deserve a lot of weight, no matter what's to come.]
Oh, I'd call myself a pretty patient person. But my patience was at an end twenty years and two weeks ago. [a hum and he turns to his current companion] And yourself?
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Either way, he's pretty much unrepentant about any of it.]
I'd say I'm surprised they were better-prepared this time, but they have had twenty years' time to prepare. Even an ant can build something vaguely useful in twenty years.
[That's probably an insult to ants?? And there's an airy quality to it, there's so much more to preparedness when it comes to their particular situation and these particular twenty years, but all of it is still vague and slapdash. They've barely begun to touch on the time in between.
He shakes his head, just briefly, but his voice has that same airy quality when he speaks again. The Foundation doesn't exactly deserve a lot of weight, no matter what's to come.]
Oh, I'd call myself a pretty patient person. But my patience was at an end twenty years and two weeks ago. [a hum and he turns to his current companion] And yourself?