Men.

Words cannot begin to decribe the rage that I feel towards some of the fucking audacious men that I have met in my time alive. So many of them get off on a feeling of superiority for the most trivial shit.
 
Cascade, the fuck, is the newest addition to my long list of men in power that will, one day, feel the full force of my boot up their arse. This fucking guy has the barefaced cheek to look at what we brought him which, allow me to remind myself, is a plot to steal from the vault at the center of the most important building in the city during his big fucking day, and then (this is the best part) looked at Bo and said "I know that you don't like the nice places I take you." as though Cascade is so fucking important to anyone in the fucking universe that we would go to the trouble of stealing the blueprints for the aforementioned building, make a fucking copy of them in grims fucking notebook and then, because he's so important, fabricate a wholeass plot just so that Bo doesn't have to look him in the eye and say "I don't like going to fancy places with you." since Cascade is so precious. Fuck off. It was so fucking disrespectful, and you can tell that it crossed several fucking lines that even Astris lost his pleasant attitude for a moment.
 
"Oh no, you're questioning my life's work!" He cries, like his life work has amounted to anything that'll go in the history books. His life's work, from what I've seen, is filling in forms like a good little boy and then sending them off to the people above him who, no doubt, have their own little dick measuring contest and couldn't give a solitary fuck about him. Oh! I forgot the best part. This fucking moron doesn't even have in sway in the guard detail for the event. The place is above his paygrade. HA! Yea, man you're so fucking important. I could sail circles around him any day of the fucking week.
 
Bo was obviously anxious the entire time, moreso than usual. If this guy is gonna keep on dating Bo then he's gonna need fixing, and I'm from the school of percussive maintenance. I'll hurt the fucker, and I'll serve time for it I don't care.
 
Cascade represents everything wrong with the Isles these days. Though, the more I think about it, maybe it's always been the problem. Adventurers built this place based upon the ideals of adventurers, but the problem with the ideals of greed-driven idiots is that they're the last person who should be making the kinds of decisions that shape a nation. Every single adventurer is an idiot even the smart ones, especially the smart ones, because they're the kinds of people who see the crazy threats that this world is made of and decide that it's something that they can handle. It's a great trait for protecting a nation, but not for ruling it. Even today in Vulcrom that greed has never left, look at how far the city has gone in a short amount of time just to protect the ideals of the bank but the slums remain forgotten and in a state of disrepair.
 
I wonder what Cascade would say if I told him all of that. Nobody I travel with really gets it. Bo and Grim come from The Old World, and Astris comes from deep below the sea. This is my home and maybe it's Cascade's too, but I doubt that he looks at it my way.