Less 'make' and more manipulate or persuade. But yes, I think this may force them to consider alternatives.
[Privately, with protection:]
Her former lover is an Infiltrator, yes. Joscelin currently lies inside him now, although I wonder a little at what would have caused him to possess such a vicious bravo as Ioskelaino.
If it will make you feel more at ease, she is in fact being helped now, by Alcuin--or Al-Quinn as he is calling himself here. He is teaching her written language and the scientific method and many other such useful things and if the end of Jaunt will ultimately leave her bereft of her newfound lover, he will at least give her mind an ample seedstock for the days to come. That is not nothing.
no subject
[Privately, with protection:]
Her former lover is an Infiltrator, yes. Joscelin currently lies inside him now, although I wonder a little at what would have caused him to possess such a vicious bravo as Ioskelaino.
If it will make you feel more at ease, she is in fact being helped now, by Alcuin--or Al-Quinn as he is calling himself here. He is teaching her written language and the scientific method and many other such useful things and if the end of Jaunt will ultimately leave her bereft of her newfound lover, he will at least give her mind an ample seedstock for the days to come. That is not nothing.