"Well, you're right. I should probably add Webber. And any of the other members of your mystical arts club."
"Covens."
"I know what I said."
How easy it is to fall quickly into old negotiation practices. Attempting to even the field when seeking favors by subtly calling the sanctity of any beliefs into question, putting the other side on a sort of guard I can slip around.
This is why I wanted nothing to do with this. Being a decision maker for a mass of people… it brings out more of the things my mother instilled in me, rather than the things I tried to embody from my grandmother's journal.
"Though if I have misjudged your people as those who would take offense at a non-malicious joke or two, then maybe it would be good for you to tell me now. So that I do not add headaches to your future days."
"Dr. Lifton can be a stickler for terminology. But she will complain to you, not me."
