Addressed to the Admiral but viewable to all

[wandthief]

Dear Admiral, I wish to be sent back to my world.

People here are quick to threaten and attack but if I offer help of any form - and I have numerous times - they either reject it or ignore it. I understand about learning patience but they prefer others suffer prolonged illness or injury instead of taking some extra help? Isn't that just simple cruelty?

I am sure you can pick and choose what powers to return to me. If I could perform simple healing spells and make healing potions then I feel I could be of a great help to the overstressed infirmary staff. However, as they are all ignoring me - unless it is to insult or threaten - then I come directly to you, since I am currently wardenless.

If the answer is no then you, dear Admiral, are as cruel as the rest and do like to see people suffering here. That would not surprise many of us here.

So, I wish my basic healing powers returned or send me back to my home.

I completely understand that this is not an ultimatum considering you will likely say NO to both - but then they had better not expect any sympathy from me if they complain again that people are hurt and dying and they can't cope when it can be fixed more easily in the aftermath with a little magic.

Comments

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

Yes. They can't be trusted with it. Some people have too much power to be in power.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

So you automatically assume that they will misuse their power.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

Or, that magical power has no bearing on political power and shouldn't.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

Exactly... Which means they should have an equal chance to lead as much as anyone else.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

But surely they've got more important things to deal with like their own power and being a vital line of cosmic defence.

Or are your wizards not quite that important?

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

The wizards in my world are hidden away. The general non-magical population think they are a myth. That we do not even really exist outside of fantasy stories.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

Maybe if there was a dungeon dimensions to protect the populace from, they'd appreciate you more. For all that I do say about wizards, they're good at what they do; researching into the Disc and keeping us safe from it's more... cosmically dangerous elements.

I just don't think they should have political power. It's like giving a General political power - they've already got an ARMY at their disposal, giving them the civic authority too is stupid. Same with magic.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

Things are very different in my world. You cannot understand unless you are both a wizard and from my world.

Not that many other wizards in my world understood how very restricted they'd let themselves become either. Most are apparently happy in their safe little bubbles, as evidenced by those books that I read. Nothing changes. Nobody wants to go outside of their tiny comfort zone.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

No matter of whether I can understand or not - you still speak like a wizard. Constantly thinking that magic can be a solution and how can we possibly manage without your great power to help us and achingly, achingly patronising.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I was taught that that is what the Muggles craved for - our power. That is, if they did not want to kill us.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

Then that's an achingly patronising assumption of those who were teaching you too.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I am finding that in the more modern world perhaps my plans could have been adapted to a better result. What I was taught was very old-fashioned thinking, as are many of our laws. I always like to think I am more... progressive than that.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

You're still being very, very patronising - progressive or not, you are.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I do not mean to be....

It is more difficult to change a hundred years of thinking a certain way than I had hoped. I do want to do the right thing here.

Whether you believe me or not.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

Then maybe you need to spend less time trying to push your powers on us when we're just fine without them, and more time trying to be less patronising.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I am only trying to help in the way that would most benefit others.

...I'm fairly sure swing's still taking out his 'dammit hix' out on him. :/

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

In your opinion. As a wizard.

Gellert isn't expecting Swing to be nice at all. XD

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

They take help from other wizards and magical people.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

But you insisting we need it, and denying you the ability to do so is cruel is patronising. It's assuming that regular medicine isn't good enough, because us non-magical types couldn't possibly come up with something which works well enough, could we?

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

But it doesn't work as well. It is slow and people suffer.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

And yet, we've been doing fine with it for centuries.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

I'm sure people have been dying and suffering for longer too.

By cruelty I mean this persistance to let those people suffer.

If people want to refuse my direct help then that is their choice. I only wish to have the chance to offer my help to those who do not want to prolong their injuries.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

You're still making patronising assumptions that whatever you can offer is just as reliable, trustworthy and useful as that of Roundworld medicine.

[wandthief.livejournal.com]

Nothing is a perfect solution - but denying offers of assistance in any form is foolish to the extreme.

[pleasesmirk.livejournal.com]

Not when that assistance isn't needed.