Se'van placed her hand on Runa's desk.
"Before I continue, is there anything you'd like me to clarify, Runa?"
"Ixion, Ixion! She's doing it again! Se'van's playing favorites! Tell her to stop. It's rude. Hmph!"
"My jester! Of course she'd play favorites. You're the one who keeps interrupting her!"
"Ixion… She's corrupted you?! How cruel! How unjust — to make the king just!"
Runa glanced at the fool, then took a deep breath and flicked her tail. She looked back at Se'van and whispered:
"No, I'm good. You can continue."
Se'van cast an empty stare at the jester, who had slipped out of her chair and was now rolling around on the floor while pretending to cry.
"Well, then… The Divide."
Se'van continued her lesson, detailing how the three major human empires rose to power.
At first, the racism, segregation, and treatment of demihumans weren't particularly severe. That was mostly because humans and demihumans rarely interacted.
However…
