Incredible, the way you make it sound like it applies to the real world and how you make it obvious that it's Lethe even without saying. I read this five times befor it started to make sense of Lethe being bitter to Soren was actually a way of putting a subtle third person view of how horrible our world is.

Again, a very strong Soren characterization. A nice snapshot of the laguz backlash to him, and his cynicism.