I hate politics.

It took my years and countless viewings of Star Wars to understand that there were politics involved in the story. And still I'm not entirely sure of what's going on there. Old Republic. Evil Empire. New Republic. Rebellion. The new movies with the duplicitious, I think, Senator/Emperor have only confused me further.

I bring this up only because I'm struggling with the politics of the Observers. My little group, Caelan, Asha, Thane and Namere, have their own little mini-government, which sometimes causes problems, but right now, I'm working through the Observers', as in the larger group, politics. They're a complicated group of non-humans : )

Unlike Caelan and the Observers in that little group, the larger group comes from a known and remembered existence, so they bring with them the experience of living within that political system. Which informs the system with which they govern themselves while on Earth. Now you throw in the fact that they, the Council members, are all probably lying to each other, and to some degree, themselves, and I have no idea what's going on. People, and non-people for that matter, make choices and take action based on experiences and knowledge. You try to grab the glass of milk before it falls off the table because you know it will make a mess and probably shatter. Your knowledge and experience drives your behavior.

I know what the Council's end game is. I know what they want and why. But I don't know what their previous experience and knowledge would be telling them about how to go about getting what they want. Arrrrgggghhhh!!!! Then, you've also got the group as a whole, all of the members, and each council member individually, Amaranta, for example. They may all agree to something on the surface, but then sneak around behind each other's backs to accomplish other things. Their background as a race or society will have some influence on them but so will their own individual backgrounds. *sigh* The Council has eleven freaking members. I only know three of them well enough to even guess what they'd do in any given situation. I've got to figure a way through this.

Okay, deep breath.

By the way, there is at least one major hint in here about book two. Or maybe it only seems major to me because I know what it means *grin*

Back to work! Why, oh, why didn't I major in poli-sci?!?