[Politics are easy for Lili to understand in comparison to everything else. The idea of feelings, of embarrassment, of friendships and the like have always eluded her - she's never been able to form those types of connections because everything was seen in a political lens for her. The idea of exchanges, of hierarchies, and preferences. She's always been at the top.
But this, she understands perfectly well.
The upward mobility of social class is a novel idea but not one that's impossible - rebel groups had killed the queen of her country not too long ago, after all. Imagine if they were successful in overturning the government and instituted those changes so it's not just the high and mighty (like herself) that made changes. For some reason, she doesn't know how she feels about it.
There's an attachment to the idea that her father will always be safe, but this sort of thinking doesn't guarantee that, even if she does believe that titles and positions should be earned. That people should be worthy of their stations rather than sitting around and twiddling their thumbs.]
... Mm, I see.
[Any anger that might be expected from her - from a noble being told of a world where nobility in its purest form through inheritance doesn't exist - isn't there. Rather it's replaced by quiet complacency, some distant and detached sort of understanding that she's not ready to unpack yet.]
So he was able to make that kind of change, even from the bottom...
[Well. Then as someone sitting at the top, shouldn't she be trying that much harder?]
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But this, she understands perfectly well.
The upward mobility of social class is a novel idea but not one that's impossible - rebel groups had killed the queen of her country not too long ago, after all. Imagine if they were successful in overturning the government and instituted those changes so it's not just the high and mighty (like herself) that made changes. For some reason, she doesn't know how she feels about it.
There's an attachment to the idea that her father will always be safe, but this sort of thinking doesn't guarantee that, even if she does believe that titles and positions should be earned. That people should be worthy of their stations rather than sitting around and twiddling their thumbs.]
... Mm, I see.
[Any anger that might be expected from her - from a noble being told of a world where nobility in its purest form through inheritance doesn't exist - isn't there. Rather it's replaced by quiet complacency, some distant and detached sort of understanding that she's not ready to unpack yet.]
So he was able to make that kind of change, even from the bottom...
[Well. Then as someone sitting at the top, shouldn't she be trying that much harder?]