...Javert is so much better at explaining events than Harry Percy.
This isn't hard. But still.
Thor listens to this whole account seriously, and intently. This is one of the few times when he actually has a poker face: he barely reacts to even the base indulgence of primitive urges, because his role here is to mediate and to pass judgment. (And this is nothing that touches on his own temper, which... sort of bypasses his sense of responsibility sometimes.) Thor is never really a private citizen, but less than ever right now. It's a side of him few people at Milliways have seen.
At the end, he nods, and spends a moment in thought.
Javert is a serious man, clear, full of words. An old scholar, by temperament if not necessarily wisdom or learning, if he speaks so dismissively of honor and brawling, but there's respect due old men and scholars both. And he's not a Security member, but he's trusted enough to see their records and do as he wills with them. That deserves a certain degree of respect too.
"Here is my concern. Sir Harry provoked you with a foolish prank after a prior quarrel. Not against the rules of Milliways, but no honor to him, and worth anger. You escalated the quarrel to violence and threw him from the horse, he struck you in turn."
"As it stands, only one party has been punished for violence in a private quarrel, even though Security was called upon to judge and redress these deeds. Is that correct? But there's no clear self-defense here. You were badly provoked -- but still, you turned the quarrel to blows, and struck first."
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This isn't hard. But still.
Thor listens to this whole account seriously, and intently. This is one of the few times when he actually has a poker face: he barely reacts to even the base indulgence of primitive urges, because his role here is to mediate and to pass judgment. (And this is nothing that touches on his own temper, which... sort of bypasses his sense of responsibility sometimes.) Thor is never really a private citizen, but less than ever right now. It's a side of him few people at Milliways have seen.
At the end, he nods, and spends a moment in thought.
Javert is a serious man, clear, full of words. An old scholar, by temperament if not necessarily wisdom or learning, if he speaks so dismissively of honor and brawling, but there's respect due old men and scholars both. And he's not a Security member, but he's trusted enough to see their records and do as he wills with them. That deserves a certain degree of respect too.
"Here is my concern. Sir Harry provoked you with a foolish prank after a prior quarrel. Not against the rules of Milliways, but no honor to him, and worth anger. You escalated the quarrel to violence and threw him from the horse, he struck you in turn."
"As it stands, only one party has been punished for violence in a private quarrel, even though Security was called upon to judge and redress these deeds. Is that correct? But there's no clear self-defense here. You were badly provoked -- but still, you turned the quarrel to blows, and struck first."