User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/Ask the Doc and his Family!/@comment-28144855-20161205220835/@comment-28358106-20161213033245

Adelaide smiles brightly. "Excellent. I knew you would appreciate the nuances of keeping the ear of the people.  It is a delicate act, is it not?  One cannot please everyone all of the time."

She folds her hands and begins to look slightly serious. "Though I only feel it fair to warn you in advance, many of the provincial leaders can be...cautious. Brusque, even.  Do not take it as a sign of rudeness.  There once was a time when all of the provinces were their own little kingdoms, and most of them are still ruled as such, as within allowed limits of the Charter.  Even the Charter members are proud, independent people.  And they have every right to be, as they have hewn their future from the rock of uncertainty, having sharpened their blades on the whetstone of conflicts that go back thousands of years."