conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “The people are already suffering from price gouging! And now they’re raising taxes? !” Even someone as uninterested in politics as I was could see this was a horrible plan.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  To Claire, who had studied statecraft since childhood, Dole’s decision looked like the ultimate folly. “This won’t end well."
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “What does that mean?”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “The citizens will protest.” Claire didn’t know it, but her prediction was spot-on. If things went like they did in the game, the protests would start next week. “Hopefully that will make my father and the provisional government realize they’re looking at a complete civil uprising. It happened after the last eruption too.” And it wasn’t going to end with riots either. If things progressed as they did in the game… A terrible fate awaited Claire and the other aristocrats.
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Do you remember the word Lilly used?”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Revolution?”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Yes…”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “I think that’s what’s coming.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  Claire laughed self-deprecatingly. “It wouldn’t surprise me. Especially if the aristocrats keep making these foolish decisions.”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Miss Claire, what do you plan to do?”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “What do you mean? I’ve already done everything I can—”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Miss Claire.” I held a small notebook out to her.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “What’s this?”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “It’s a list of my assets, maintained through the Trade Guild.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “When did you…?” Claire flipped through the ledger, seeing herself listed as the next of kin—and the staggeringly large balance. “Where did you get all this money?! You couldn’t have saved this much from being my maid!”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “I had some other jobs.”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “How?! You’re by my side every day and night!”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Yes, but the jobs I had didn’t require my physical presence.” Claire looked unconvinced. I pushed on, regardless. “What do you think we should do with all this money?”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “What should…we do?”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “How about distributing food and supplies?” I asked.
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  Claire scrunched up her face at my suggestion. “The provisional government is already doing as much. It would be more efficient to give them the money and let them allocate it as they will.”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Do you trust the provisional government that much, Miss Claire?”
conversations.prefix: Rae:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Well…” Claire’s expression turned grim. “Besides, Miss Claire, you should be the one handing out the supplies.”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: gpt
conversations.value:  “Me?”
conversations.prefix: Claire:
conversations.from: human
conversations.value:  “Yes. To show the people that not all nobles are corrupt.” Claire fell silent, clearly thinking deeply about my words. What I said was, oh, about half-true. The real reason I wanted Claire to be seen handing out rations was to buy her goodwill in the people’s eyes. It was the same reason I’d accepted King l’Ausseil’s request to investigate corruption among the nobility—so the people could see Claire bringing retribution to the guilty. She’d come a long way from the selfish villainess she used to be, but at the rate Dole was going, Claire was at risk of going down with her father’s ship. She didn’t believe in the same things Dole did, and I needed the people to see that.
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