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[goblinemperor]

[ Maia is unfamiliar with advanced technology, so he checks and double-checks and triple-checks to make sure the message he is posting will not bear his name, before he asks: ]

What would you do with your freedom, if you had it for the first time in your life and never learned how to use it?

[ The question is awkwardly phrased, true, but he really is pretty desperate for advice. One way and another, he's been pent up and under supervision since he was born, and now he doesn't really know how else to be. ]

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[goblinemperor]

It seems that all my dreams are as silly as a child's. Or else... foolish. Just because I am free to try to court someone doesn't mean I know the first thing about how to do it. And surely there must be some limits.
I do not want to make myself into a figure of scorn and ridicule.

[luxurist]

There's hardly anything wrong with some foolishness occasionally. That, too, is part of being free, darling.

Ooohhh, we're talking about courting, are we? Why, that's just splendid. Don't you worry, I can help you with that. I assume that they're here in Riverview, this object of your courtly intentions?

[goblinemperor]

Freedom to be foolish without painful consequences is a strange thing to imagine.

[ With Setheris, foolishness always earned him a beating; at court, it meant a scandal. The idea that he could make a fool of himself without intense regret is a hard one to wrap his mind around. ]

No, you are mistaken. I have no settled intentions and there is no object. It is merely something I thought of, when I turned my mind to pursuits that are not possible for me, outside this place.