...Yeah.

[ yeah. man - hearing that grinds his gears but he can't say it's surprising, either. prejudice and despair are the norm, but it burns strohl now as much as it always has, if not more now that he's spending his time traveling with will. ]

My parents always taught me that nobility is not about having status or being better. It's about the fact that if you've been granted some sort of privilege by society, you ought to use it to help people. Not just your friends, or your cronies, or your sycophants - people, your people. It is a responsibility.

[ he's made a similar point before, reiterated now. nobility is a sacred duty. noblesse oblige. ]

I don't stand for a society like what your topsiders do. Euchronia's no different - I watched a man use his last words to scorn Will, say he couldn't bear to be saved by an elda. It's ridiculous. [ he's getting a little heated again, as usual - the awful soldier as much as the paripus in the mines, miserable, used as bait. it makes his stomach churn. ] But, we're going to make it different.