Claudius laughs at the memory of that first meeting. "If thou dost need me to be gentle with thee, thou needst only ask -- in all things," he says, taking the slimmest chance to flirt. More serious, though still affecting a lighter tone, he says, "But if thou art questioning what this means for thy free will, or the reality of thy world ... thou shouldst know that I had a poorer notion of my free will in Denmark, when I believed my decisions were secrets between myself and God and not the subject of stageplays. However many shocks or surprises this place presents me with, I've not yet given up on it." Even if he has to rework his entire cosmology again to make sense of it.
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Date: 2023-11-30 08:18 pm (UTC)