[Dragonmail: Acher Ostendramm]

[firecracker_hopping]

[After she mailed Eileen and was mailed by Jordan, but before she mailed Harriet. She sure did take awhile to find the nerve to send this.]

Acher. I heard about everything that happened in Bastan. Are you alive and well?

Comments

[fearnoreproach]

Of course.

You might say that I picked the winning side.

[firecracker_hopping]

What does that mean? You are a Queen's Knight.

[fearnoreproach]

No. You made me one. I chose to renounce my loyalty and swore my sword to Aerveas. It has since been put to good use in seizing Bastan.

[firecracker_hopping]

What have you done, you idiot? You've turned against everyone you knew, you've... [A bunch of erasure marks until the text is frantically blurred and unreadable.] Everything about your life is forfeit now!

[fearnoreproach]

By my choice, at least.

I told you I would shatter the chains you put on me. Breaking bonds requires a cost be paid.

[firecracker_hopping]

By others! People have died, Acher!

[fearnoreproach]

By you. The blood is on your hands as much as mine.

[firecracker_hopping]

God damn it. I won't try to protect you from the consequences of this.

[fearnoreproach]

You never have before.