[Dragaera] "Work" and money

[Davdi Silverrock]

On 10/13/06, Peter H. Granzeau wrote:
> At 02:23 AM 10/13/2006, Davdi Silverrock wrote:

> >
> >Or perhaps it's like this:  Cawti was independently wealthy, but she
> >had sufficient qualms about what her husband was doing for a living
> >that she was reluctant to do anything in the way of supporting those
> >activities financially -- and was sufficiently confused and
> >embarrassed by those qualms that she preferred not to mention to Vlad
> >just how wealthy she was.
>
> She was a highly paid assassin; Vlad probably spent far less time at
> it than she did.  She has _qualms_?  Maybe later on, as she gained a
> social conscience, but certainly not originally!
>

Her social conscience was already developing in /Yendi/, when she
first met Vlad.  She was outraged at the idea of the mighty Dragaeran
Empire casually  conquering "her" people - Easterners.  It isn't much
of a jump from there to thinking about how the Empire exploits its
weakest and most vulnerable members, and from there to looking at how
her husband exploits those weak and vulnerable members as well, and
feeling conflicted.

Therefore: indeed, qualms.

Don't ask me how she reconciled her profession with those qualms.
Perhaps she justified it to herself that those she killed were evil
and exploitative people.  Or perhaps she considered her social works
to be sufficient reparation for her deeds.