HARPER
"No," he agrees softly, and traces the star pattern with his thumb as he says it. Harper is a man built on empathy, but he knows all too well how to crush that side of himself, store it away in a place it can't be hurt so that he might return to it when the hell of war is done. "But it seems as if everyone is delaying. I can shore our defenses as Safrin demands - and I have. She enabled me to protect the Skyboat dock in Torchline. But the rest...we are merely waiting in limbo, with the smallest of actions taken here and there." And Harper - a man who can't sit still on the best of days - can't help but chafe beneath the slowness.
Humming at Gideon's insight, Harper slowly shakes his head. "I have lead before - years of it, but only in wars and battles. I instructed legions of new soldiers, vigilantes, even individuals with godlike powers who came to me with no experience and only a heart to lead them. I'm not being egotistical when i say I know how to lead - but not in the way a Governor would need to." Politics, business, that was all outside of Harper's purview. "But perhaps in a different role? I would not be opposed to that." Whether they would accept him after Sunjata's ridiculous response to him reaching for Nate, well. That's up in the air - and the man is unaware of how the titles are changing in Torchline as they speak.
Humming at Gideon's insight, Harper slowly shakes his head. "I have lead before - years of it, but only in wars and battles. I instructed legions of new soldiers, vigilantes, even individuals with godlike powers who came to me with no experience and only a heart to lead them. I'm not being egotistical when i say I know how to lead - but not in the way a Governor would need to." Politics, business, that was all outside of Harper's purview. "But perhaps in a different role? I would not be opposed to that." Whether they would accept him after Sunjata's ridiculous response to him reaching for Nate, well. That's up in the air - and the man is unaware of how the titles are changing in Torchline as they speak.
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