Do you mean the locals or the refugees? Either way, I would say it is no different than Eorzea. There are those who wish to help just as surely as there are those who wish to harm. Insofar as the locals are concerned, those who dislike us refugees are none too subtle about it.
[ He shrugs. ]
I know it’s not precisely helpful, but it is the truth. It is a place like any other, with people like any other.
I don’t blame you in the least. A little caution goes a long way.
[ Some would call X’rhun too trusting, or at least naive in the way he insists on lending his blade to anyone in need of help, but he has learned to tread somewhat cautiously since his abduction. ]
If it sways your opinion of where to go at all, we few from Eorzea have chosen to settle in Wyver for the time being.
I would not call it attractive so much as… the best option at the time. Originally, we refugees were all settled in Olympia, but a group of radicals attacked the city, unleashing a terrible sickness on the populace. It later came to light that the Olympian government had some hand in creating that sickness, though they did not release it, you can imagine that it did not endear me to them much. I nearly lost Alisaie and some friends besides to that illness.
[ This is probably not helping Krile’s trust issues, but better she knows the whole sordid history. ]
Wyver has its fair share of problems, but in the wake of that attack, we were all sent to stay there, and though Olympia eventually reopened their gates, there we have stayed. Personally, it reminds me of home in some ways. There is much of the Ala Mhigo of my boyhood in Wyver, for better or worse.
All right, I'll pursue the more obvious first. What, exactly, is a city-state's governing body doing through the creation of, from the sound of it, a fantastically difficult disease?
[Anyone in their right mind would ask this. Wouldn't they?]
I know not, and the Olympian government did not see fit to share that information. Suffice it to say, I trust the lot of them about as far as I can throw them.
[ The refugees don’t possess the leverage to get that sort of information out of the upper echelons of Olympia, even if they wanted to, so it has remained an unknown. ]
[She's a bit put out, here, because the written material on Olympia made it sound of a more primitive Sharlayan, in a way. Hearing this...well. It bodes ill for all of their fortunes, if such things are carried out even infrequently.]
I don't suppose they were good enough to reassure you that such "developments" would cease in future? Or even promise some better containment?
[Whether she wants to admit it or not, Krile isn't exactly well down the path to trusting anyone anymore. Not since Ala Mhigo.]
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Full glad am I to know there's a healer in our midst. Mine own abilities are passable in a dire situation, but good for little more than that.
[ Vercure will only take one so far, after all. ]
And she had better permit it. I'll hold her down myself, if not.
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I shouldn't think such drastic actions necessary. Alisaie possesses rather sound judgment by my estimation.
[A bit of a propensity to throw herself into the fray without too much thought to the consequences...
...but then, the Leveilleur family is not known for its idleness.]
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[ Well, if Alisaie hadn't mentioned her engagement... there it is now. ]
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The turn of phrase seems to pass her by, though, as her thoughts have shifted to other matters.]
Will you tell me what manner of people I can truly expect to encounter here? I took in their friendly literature with several grains of salt.
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[ He shrugs. ]
I know it’s not precisely helpful, but it is the truth. It is a place like any other, with people like any other.
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[Krile has more than her share of a Sharlayan scholar's sarcasm.]
You'll forgive my lean toward mistrust, after all this talk of kidnappings and hostages and the like.
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[ Some would call X’rhun too trusting, or at least naive in the way he insists on lending his blade to anyone in need of help, but he has learned to tread somewhat cautiously since his abduction. ]
If it sways your opinion of where to go at all, we few from Eorzea have chosen to settle in Wyver for the time being.
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What's so attractive to you about Wyver?
[What she read described soaring temperatures and hostile living conditions, to say nothing of the settlers or locals or what have you.]
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[ This is probably not helping Krile’s trust issues, but better she knows the whole sordid history. ]
Wyver has its fair share of problems, but in the wake of that attack, we were all sent to stay there, and though Olympia eventually reopened their gates, there we have stayed. Personally, it reminds me of home in some ways. There is much of the Ala Mhigo of my boyhood in Wyver, for better or worse.
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[Anyone in their right mind would ask this. Wouldn't they?]
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[ The refugees don’t possess the leverage to get that sort of information out of the upper echelons of Olympia, even if they wanted to, so it has remained an unknown. ]
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I don't suppose they were good enough to reassure you that such "developments" would cease in future? Or even promise some better containment?
[Whether she wants to admit it or not, Krile isn't exactly well down the path to trusting anyone anymore. Not since Ala Mhigo.]
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[ A small consolation, at least. ]
But don’t misunderstand, I’ve nothing against the people of either nation, as is usually the way with these things.