#realistic thinking

I am not just saying this as a Bal and Huma shipper who just wants my ships. I am thinking from a realistic standpoint.

All Uma ever wanted if she got off the Isle was to SAIL with her crew. She wanted FREEDOM to BE an actual pirate and to see the world.

I'm not saying that Uma would be a bad High Queen. On the contrary, she'd probably be a very good one. She was pretty much ruling the Isle stably in D2 in Mal's absence

But even if Ben DIDN'T have Mal and wanted Uma. Uma would. Not. WANT. the stately, restricting sit at a desk job that being High Queen IS.

Maybe at first she would give it a shot. For example, in a situation where Mal didn't break the love spell in D2 straight away. Uma may have stayed with/dated Ben for a while. Thinking it would give her influence and the ability to help the Isle/make sure the Isle is not forgotten again. But in the end, being with Ben would suffocate her. They would last maybe a year at most before Uma broke it off.

She just cannot be the type of girl Ben needs no matter how much she would supposedly care for him. She just can't love him the way she loves Harry or the way Ben would need as a High King.

We may feel tempted to experiment with other forms of political order. But experiments on this scale are dangerous, since nobody knows how to predict or to reverse their results.

The French, Russian, and Nazi Revolutions were bold experiments; but in each case they led to the collapse of legal order, to mass murder at home, and to belligerence abroad.

The wise policy is to accept the arrangements, however imperfect, that have evolved through custom and inheritance, to improve them by small adjustments, but not to jeopardize them by large-scale alterations the consequences of which nobody can really envisage.

The case for this approach was unanswerably set before us by Burke in his Reflections on the French Revolution, and subsequent history has repeatedly confirmed his view of things.

The lesson that we should draw, therefore, is that since the nation state has proved to be a stable foundation of democratic government and a secular jurisdiction, we ought to improve it, to adjust it, even to dilute it, but not to throw it away."

— Roger Scruton

1. I’m a teacher with no time for personal days

2. I live in Minneapolis which is a big city but not really close to any cities Taylor lives in

3. I’ve never flown before so if I got picked I’d have to drive to wherever it is