Sound like Demacia without the eh... borderline genocidal hatred of magic. [just necromancy instead. why any people would choose monarchy as the preferred ruling style is beyond him but then again, then there would be no necromancy royal courts for pal's novel.

but ah, pal is reciting and viktor just watches him more than he really listens to the words. if he's going to be honest the casual hints of how solid pal's memory is always impresses him, but the way his voice sounds wrapping around them is... also nice. impressive, that he has a sense of meter. that is it.

a shame he's not paying closer attention, because frankly this little poem was very interesting. he does take note of no first, which he assumes the poem simply doesn't address. a little odd. and the seventh makes his mouth thin a little when he recalls it, but he brushes it away.]

Impressive, you even have the meter down. [a pause.] The Sixth still has the most appealing one by far. Some of those are eh, they're suspect. 'No matter the cost' is rarely a phrase you see used in a purely positive way.

[ok, right, main characters. he snorts and smiles at the descriptions.] Hm, well done. A very believable pair of people, I would say. At least one or both has to have academic backgrounds though, for the genre. Here- [he gestures for the pen and just sort of writes 'academia' near the two character ideas like that helps at all.]