[ No offense is taken at the outburst. He knew it was coming. But it's a question he still needed to ask. Nothing changes in his demeanor, nothing at all. Though it's nice to know that someone as rich as him cared about his people that way. When you work in public service, as straight as the narrow path as Roland is with these things, suffice to say meeting Scrooge in a different circumstance might have boded ill for them both.
But now, for what actually matters - ]
For what it's worth, and it's not worth a lot these days, heh. I...would have backed your Uncle. Had I been there, had I known you then in your world. I really would have.
[ And he would have the power to do so if he was the same guy there as he was where he came from. He offers her a placating smile, warm and earnest, something that he hopes can reach out to her. That it's okay. That he's grateful she's shared that with him, as much as it may have upset her to remember how her leg and her reunion with her family all played out. ]
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[ No offense is taken at the outburst. He knew it was coming. But it's a question he still needed to ask. Nothing changes in his demeanor, nothing at all. Though it's nice to know that someone as rich as him cared about his people that way. When you work in public service, as straight as the narrow path as Roland is with these things, suffice to say meeting Scrooge in a different circumstance might have boded ill for them both.
But now, for what actually matters - ]
For what it's worth, and it's not worth a lot these days, heh. I...would have backed your Uncle. Had I been there, had I known you then in your world. I really would have.
[ And he would have the power to do so if he was the same guy there as he was where he came from. He offers her a placating smile, warm and earnest, something that he hopes can reach out to her. That it's okay. That he's grateful she's shared that with him, as much as it may have upset her to remember how her leg and her reunion with her family all played out. ]