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"I could see you being Prince of Seattle, Tanner," Nathaniel told him simply. "I think you'd probably make a good prince."
Casually sitting sideways at the table across from the influential Invictus, Tanner shrugged and made a dismissive noise. "Nah. They'd never listen to me. Besides, I'm that crazy guy who hasn't accepted that he's a vampire."
Nathaniel nodded. "No, that's true, there are certain things that you... choose not to see the same way that others do," he said, selecting his words carefully. "But you're a bright guy, Tanner. You're a really bright guy.
"And I hope some day to be having this conversation with a really bright vampire."
The conversation rolled around in his head a few times as he rode the ferry from Bremerton back into Seattle. It wasn't the first time that anyone had suggested Tanner would be a good fit for the big chair. He was young--very young by their standards--and he wasn't a politico. His interests didn't lie in it. Tanner's view of it was still that Seattle didn't want a prince. Still, everyone considered him fair-minded, and level-headed, and clearly not out to become a tyrant.
But in the end, he just didn't see things the way everyone else did. He wasn't, as Nathaniel stated, a bright vampire.
...and should he choose to become one, and to see things the way everyone else did, he'd be just like the rest of them. And then he wouldn't seem so bright anymore.
Casually sitting sideways at the table across from the influential Invictus, Tanner shrugged and made a dismissive noise. "Nah. They'd never listen to me. Besides, I'm that crazy guy who hasn't accepted that he's a vampire."
Nathaniel nodded. "No, that's true, there are certain things that you... choose not to see the same way that others do," he said, selecting his words carefully. "But you're a bright guy, Tanner. You're a really bright guy.
"And I hope some day to be having this conversation with a really bright vampire."
The conversation rolled around in his head a few times as he rode the ferry from Bremerton back into Seattle. It wasn't the first time that anyone had suggested Tanner would be a good fit for the big chair. He was young--very young by their standards--and he wasn't a politico. His interests didn't lie in it. Tanner's view of it was still that Seattle didn't want a prince. Still, everyone considered him fair-minded, and level-headed, and clearly not out to become a tyrant.
But in the end, he just didn't see things the way everyone else did. He wasn't, as Nathaniel stated, a bright vampire.
...and should he choose to become one, and to see things the way everyone else did, he'd be just like the rest of them. And then he wouldn't seem so bright anymore.