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The three of you had better come back alive. All of you.
Kristen gave a firm nod to the departing Evangeline. And she shared that same sentiment.
She intended for this not to be a sacrifice, not by any measure. Where last she had departed Salesia, critically wounded, carried by Edric, a wake of death left behind them both, here it had to be different. Here it had to be as she had thought when she departed from Edric in the jail.
In all that death, there had to be life. There would be life.
Kristen led the way to Pinewood Lake, and there would they await Fabien.
The village itself was mostly a linear one, built along the curving road running from the north to the southeast. And on the more eastern side the land beyond the village's bounds went down in a steep slope to the edge of the lake that was the settlement's namesake. Large it was, stretching perhaps further than the arrow from a longbow could fly, and across its placid surface small flocks of ducks floated and there were but light ripples here and there following the bidding of the breeze.
Kristen and Blair waited with the periphery of the village just behind them, the road on their right, and the beginnings of that slope and the lake to their left. Their horses stood by with patience.
To Blair Kristen spoke in the interim time, "May I ask you something, Blair?"
With solemn mien she looked to her, and her eyes asked for openness and honesty, whether such answer born of it would be in accordance or opposition to Kristen's own.
"If you were in my place, what would you do? I mean to say, would you do all of this for a man or woman whom you know not? Is the risk of life and well-being in this venture a worthy one? Many things I could do besides—gods, I even neglect a more timely reunion with dear friends for the sake of a woman whose name I do not even know!"
Still had she to meet again with Alistair and with Zinnia, the foremost of those whom she loved and had yet to see in her return from Mount Dincia. How foolish and naive of her to think that once she had graduated from the Academy she would have all the time available to Arethil to do as she pleased! For it was that she was made busy by her Ladyship of Vel Numera, and Alistair and Zinnia each had their own duties to which they had to attend.
"Surely you can see why my uncle Tobias, my father Neil, even Evangeline herself, all would be—or are—counseling me against this errand."
Blair Rennick Fabien 'King' D'Amour
Kristen gave a firm nod to the departing Evangeline. And she shared that same sentiment.
She intended for this not to be a sacrifice, not by any measure. Where last she had departed Salesia, critically wounded, carried by Edric, a wake of death left behind them both, here it had to be different. Here it had to be as she had thought when she departed from Edric in the jail.
In all that death, there had to be life. There would be life.
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Kristen led the way to Pinewood Lake, and there would they await Fabien.
The village itself was mostly a linear one, built along the curving road running from the north to the southeast. And on the more eastern side the land beyond the village's bounds went down in a steep slope to the edge of the lake that was the settlement's namesake. Large it was, stretching perhaps further than the arrow from a longbow could fly, and across its placid surface small flocks of ducks floated and there were but light ripples here and there following the bidding of the breeze.
Kristen and Blair waited with the periphery of the village just behind them, the road on their right, and the beginnings of that slope and the lake to their left. Their horses stood by with patience.
To Blair Kristen spoke in the interim time, "May I ask you something, Blair?"
With solemn mien she looked to her, and her eyes asked for openness and honesty, whether such answer born of it would be in accordance or opposition to Kristen's own.
"If you were in my place, what would you do? I mean to say, would you do all of this for a man or woman whom you know not? Is the risk of life and well-being in this venture a worthy one? Many things I could do besides—gods, I even neglect a more timely reunion with dear friends for the sake of a woman whose name I do not even know!"
Still had she to meet again with Alistair and with Zinnia, the foremost of those whom she loved and had yet to see in her return from Mount Dincia. How foolish and naive of her to think that once she had graduated from the Academy she would have all the time available to Arethil to do as she pleased! For it was that she was made busy by her Ladyship of Vel Numera, and Alistair and Zinnia each had their own duties to which they had to attend.
"Surely you can see why my uncle Tobias, my father Neil, even Evangeline herself, all would be—or are—counseling me against this errand."
Blair Rennick Fabien 'King' D'Amour