Matt feels like it might be best to come at this from a different angle first, however.
"I'm just curious," he says. Each word falls a little staccato.
"What's the justification? Your stance on vengeance I think I get." Though he disagrees, it is clear to him that Prospero operates with a specific set of justifications there. "And I get that having slaves is still a thing for a lot of cultures. But I want to know-- I mean, you're ... really well read, and you clearly don't have hugely political ambitions or you'd have spent a lot more time micromanaging the dukedom. Why the collar?"
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"And the hurts that leave scars ..."
He can make ironical references too.
"Those are of the wintry variety?"
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"Is that why you've gotten Ariel involved?" he said.
"To ... stave off the hurt? Or get yours, or keep the cold out, or whatever?"
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"Well from where I'm sitting it sounds like a lengthy period of indentured servitude," he says.
"It's ... not my business any more than anything else is, but I have to admit I was interested in hearing your thoughts."
And given how they now apparently clash on the topic of justice, he's betting those thoughts will be scintillating.
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"I'm not saying there was anything wrong with the contract."
Matt looks pretty dry, even though he's wondering if there's about to be a rumble. He did not come prepared for a rumble.
"I'm sure it's soundly designed, or it wouldn't hold."
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And not to Ariel's, which is the point, he wants to add, but doesn't because he allllready feels like he's overstepping.
He's not about to stop stepping, but at least he won't put too many words in Ariel's mouth.
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Matt feels like it might be best to come at this from a different angle first, however.
"I'm just curious," he says. Each word falls a little staccato.
"What's the justification? Your stance on vengeance I think I get." Though he disagrees, it is clear to him that Prospero operates with a specific set of justifications there. "And I get that having slaves is still a thing for a lot of cultures. But I want to know-- I mean, you're ... really well read, and you clearly don't have hugely political ambitions or you'd have spent a lot more time micromanaging the dukedom. Why the collar?"
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It's been over a year, and it was only a month and change, and at that phrasing Matt still needs a second to breathe.
So what about those hurts that leave scars?
"You know, I've heard that argument before," he says, quietly but quite politely.
"And I find it a little bankrupt."
A pause. He doesn't look away.
"But bargains, right. Refresh my memory, what's the situation? I guess I could go off Ariel, but I wouldn't be getting both viewpoints that way."
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