Sabine's Decorations
Lovely evil Sabine, Dark Rider of the horse Khaan, let loose pigs on the Equine Festival.
The Sunfield pigs are in fact lovely creatures, and not great beasts, which means they are in fact terrified of being lost, and are creating a racket, instead of being methodical beasts of destruction set on eating their way through everything.
I round them up, and Sabine has the gall to ask if I would meet with her.
I am not without sin, I am too curious for my own good. I have to admit I am intrigued by how confidently she comes up to me to ask for a talk right after the little mess she caused. No sign of guilt on her at all!
She tells me that she's angry because she's been banned from competing in any of the Equine Festival events. She honestly seems to have no clue why she would be banned from competing, claiming she's the best. As if she hasn't just proven that she can't resist causing possible harm to others at the festival. As if she actually thinks people believe she wouldn't sabotage someone if she saw them as a threat.
She tells me her "great scheme" to get them to change their mind: put up some decorations so people see her participating and take it as enough of a change of mind to allow her in.
This seems harmless enough, so I'm willing to go along with it. I am definitely curious what Sabine thinks would be suitable decorations, considering how very clear she's made her disdain for the very festival she's so desperate to compete in clear.
Of course it's not that simple. Sabine got fireworks. Drakonium fueled fireworks.
Now I love fireworks as much as the next person. I would love to set them off.
But drakonium is notoriously unstable and highly reactive. Sabine isn't exactly an expert on fireworks either. She could very easily kill someone, or burn down the entire festival with theseSabine of course doesn't see a problem with this, claiming that it's just a matter of training to keep horses under control.
Everyone knows that horses are spook beasts, they spook at their own shadows. Horses brought to the Equine Festival are a lot better trained than most, but that doesn't mean that having a stray firework go off in the middle of the festival would result in calm. I wouldn't trust people to be calm if an explosion went off beside them, let alone a horse!
And she honestly seems to believe the fact that Khaan only responds to her commands is a result of her training, and not because the horse has been blinded and deafened to the world outside of her existence. I don't know who's more blind, horse or rider, for Sabine to believe such a thing.
Either way I'm off with the fireworks. I'm not letting her get horses possibly killed because she's being petty about people acknowledging her as a danger to the festival.
Sabine of course has a whole speech up her sleeve, about how I'm "dancing on the edge of the dark" and "keeping what I do secret from my friends". How I'm being a hypocrite.
She doesn't seem to recognize that part of being good is giving others, even ones you suspect of being bad, a chance. I mean, admittedly this had more to do with my curiosity than honestly trusting Sabine to not be stupid about the decorations, but it certainly wasn't "dancing with the dark" or "keeping shameful secrets".
Does she think that I cannot enjoy a race beside her and also dislike the danger she brings? Does she think she is the only one allowed complexities?
We are caught in a stalemate where neither side can gain over the other, and it is better to have peace between our sides than to continually push until we find something more effective. I don't want to be the one to cause the card castle to fall because I pushed too much.
And perhaps if Sabine has moments of fun where she isn't being an active threat to everything around her, Sabine will be less willing to cause damage.
A pipe dream, I know, but one can hope.
I would love to see Khaan when he has clear eyes one day.
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