Because he could. That, after a day and a half spent here, the already shaky optimism of hoping for meaningful influence and change is more or less extinguished. Overwhelming them feels like the only recourse, filing in a hundred or so countervotes and leaving. And after a day and a half, it's not a rational argument to make. He has not stood and had long and deliberate conversations with any of the Loyalists' faction, and none have sought him out for the same, and for good reason.
So he doesn't make it. He wants to go out to dinner with Petrana and Julius more than he wants to offer his cynicism. He leans and kisses the top of her head, careful not to nudge any pins loose as he does so.
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Because he could. That, after a day and a half spent here, the already shaky optimism of hoping for meaningful influence and change is more or less extinguished. Overwhelming them feels like the only recourse, filing in a hundred or so countervotes and leaving. And after a day and a half, it's not a rational argument to make. He has not stood and had long and deliberate conversations with any of the Loyalists' faction, and none have sought him out for the same, and for good reason.
So he doesn't make it. He wants to go out to dinner with Petrana and Julius more than he wants to offer his cynicism. He leans and kisses the top of her head, careful not to nudge any pins loose as he does so.