No conflict wasn't always a bad thing.
When you didn't have a large threat breathing down your neck, demanding constant vigilance and desperate measures just to survive another day, you could afford to be laid back in how you did things.
You could relax, observe, learn at your own pace rather than being forced to adapt under lethal pressure. The absence of immediate danger created space for contemplation that frantic survival never permitted.
Others this complacency. Others recognized it as wisdom, the understanding that not every moment required maximum intensity, that conservation of effort during calm periods allowed for greater exertion when storms inevitably returned.
Peace was preparation wearing comfortable clothes, and that preparation knew there would be storms ahead!
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Achilles didn't have any large overarching threat at this moment in time.
