@pyrich asked : “maybe I only see a pattern because I’ve been staring too long.” / the g.oldfinch starters . - selectively accepting!
eyebrows pluck upwards , the king only having so much nerve to entertain american Intelligence units and what-not in a too heavy schedule of meetings and treaty signings and dinners and other long-winding and earth-shatteringly boring things that could drag on to a point where he wondered why he wanted to bear political footing in the first place . the fox has learned the ways of correspondence and negotiations the roughest way possible - first on the battlefield and then on sea - and while he also knew to rely on his diplomatic strength the whole fiasco of coming and going and shaking hands and not saying anything concrete could get tiresome . usually , zoya and him made a game of roping the most inane stories out of people to then get them to agree to whatever they needed them to agree to , and nine times out of then it worked . usually , king did most of this on his home soil and not in the middle of an fbi investigation .
he has not slept in over twenty-four hours and all he wants is to get back to ravka , to leave this country to its own nonsense since his country had enough nonsense for him to deal with . but instead he is supposed to assist agent keen - smart , capable , something ravkan in her without her being from there at all - in helping finding the man who tried to shoot him at the embassy dinner two nights ago . “ maybe you do . maybe you just haven’t slept at all , agent . you wouldn’t be the only one .” he comments charmingly in his heavy accent as he stands next to her , tiredness clinging to him but still pushing forward with an immaculate appearance . anything for appearance’s sake , even if the country won’t thank him for it . even if no one will thank him for it and he still was supposed to be dead if it would not have been for his outstanding security detail . “maybe some people just want to see other people dead for no reason at all . it happens . war is a lot like that , you know? senseless order-fulfilling and trying to see a pattern where there’s none . maybe this isn’t much different . bad place and time , agent , that is hardly your fault .”