[What hadn't Miri Carrington done? She'd fought in the Breakaway War when she was scarcely older than Ari is now. She'd built up the Company until it was one of the largest and most powerful in the sector. She'd plotted and manipulated people until she got herself a 51% share, making any talk of shareholder voting rights laughable. And she'd created Ari. Ari, whose genemother hadn't wanted her. She doesn't know how much pressure Miri Carrington had put on her granddaughter to give the unloved embryo up to the genelabs for experimentation, and mostly she thinks it's better that she doesn't know.
Ari has exceptionally conflicted feelings about her great-grandmother.]
My great-grandmother runs the Company. That's Cardalek - the colony world, and the megacorporation. She has control over all the major decisions. She appoints the new Directors, and she has a lot of indirect power, too. Nobody wants to be cut off from trade with Cardalek.
[And that's quite enough about her, Ari decides.] I hear your proposed contract, but as I said, I'm holding off on negotiation until I get my bearings. [A diplomatic answer, because being under someone else's protection doesn't sit right with her Tradeliner pride. They've always been wary of outsiders.]
Tell me, did you decide to join this fight to become Demon King? Or was it forced on you? If you didn't fight your way to the top, would someone else have killed you? [Sometimes, in judging these things, intentions are critical.]
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Ari has exceptionally conflicted feelings about her great-grandmother.]
My great-grandmother runs the Company. That's Cardalek - the colony world, and the megacorporation. She has control over all the major decisions. She appoints the new Directors, and she has a lot of indirect power, too. Nobody wants to be cut off from trade with Cardalek.
[And that's quite enough about her, Ari decides.] I hear your proposed contract, but as I said, I'm holding off on negotiation until I get my bearings. [A diplomatic answer, because being under someone else's protection doesn't sit right with her Tradeliner pride. They've always been wary of outsiders.]
Tell me, did you decide to join this fight to become Demon King? Or was it forced on you? If you didn't fight your way to the top, would someone else have killed you? [Sometimes, in judging these things, intentions are critical.]