Written By Aislin
April 29, 2017, 5:08 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Niamh
Someone who strives so hard to make my life an adventure, even when I'm trapped within the walls.
She caught my heart the first time by turning my treehouse into the wider world, setting up a campsite, and inviting me off on a journey to ride a griffin to faraway lands -- across the sea to Eurus, or past the wastes to Cardia. To see the far realms that only a handful of Arvani have ever glimpsed. The same sort of adventures I used to have as a child, riding my griffin Cloudstriker to distant lands.
And now... now a book. Most of the pages missing, telling a story of a necklace she gave me. Setting an adventure through a forgotten myth, a trail of puzzles and riddles to follow to assemble the tale.
Someday, I need to find what will fill her heart with hope -- with life -- the same way she fills mine with these gestures. To show her how much she truly means to me.
Written By Cara
April 29, 2017, 5:03 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
I have a new appreciation for what my own mother went through, which I am sure is the point of her reminder to write it down, and so:
Yes, Mother, you were right.
Written By Cara
April 29, 2017, 4:22 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
It is ever important to remember to respond with grace and calm demeanor, for certainly to do otherwise is to invite scorn and malice. On the other hand, grace and decorum in the face of provocation can be spun as inaction or lack of will -- and will certainly be painted that way by one's detractors.
I muse on this subject often: to be politic, or to be honest. My brother never shied away from brutal honesty, something which I confess I often envied in him, even as I put pen to paper writing apologies and soothing hurt feelings.
Perhaps my tolerance for those who lie to me, who attempt to bully me, or to otherwise coerce and control me without the proper bounds of fealty between us has grown tattered of late. There's a limit to what any person might endure without comment. I pray I do not meet that limit somewhere public, and do something disgraceful like hurl a teapot at the head of a High Lord, or dump wine onto an idiot's lap.
It would not do for it to be revealed that I am only human, too, after all.
Written By Carita
April 29, 2017, 3:10 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Sameera
Written By Carita
April 29, 2017, 3:06 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Ariel
Written By Carita
April 29, 2017, 3:04 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Mailys
Written By Carita
April 29, 2017, 2:56 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Edward
Written By Gisele
April 29, 2017, 2:54 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
The tail of a comet winds (in unrealistic parabolas) through a misty darkness spangled with constellations of spun-glass hearts (shattered) and green gaping maws (hungry) and obsidian-clasped mirrors (blessedly empty). It streaks towards the lower right of the page and there its head becomes a starburst limned in gold-leaf.
Written By Carita
April 29, 2017, 2:51 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Charlaine
Written By Carita
April 29, 2017, 2:43 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Of course they were nosy. Of course we drank. I answered ... some of their questions and kept their glasses full. Overall, it was a good night. Cora promised to do more baby-sitting for me. Kai wanted to know if I had an in with any good ships headed out. It stings a little to now that we're so different now. It's a feeling that reminds me of how far it took to get here.
How far there's left to go.
Let me tell you, that sting fades fast when you're wearing silk.
Written By Samantha
April 29, 2017, 2:39 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
I still sincerely believe that the abolition of thralldom is an inevitable evolution, though its progress must by necessity be slow and gradual and cause as minimal an economic impact as possible.
Written By Merek
April 29, 2017, 2:14 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Ariel
Written By Shadow
April 29, 2017, 1:35 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
I do not know if this is madness or not anymore, The line of the path becomes blurred.
Is this truly the way of the city? Have i become so lost?
Or maybe it is what I have taken in within the last year..
But I still do not hear their whispered words, Do not feel their touch.
I feel as if they are there, But without hearing.. without feeling..
How can I be sure? Are they truly there just out of reach whispering and waiting..
Or have they left me, Have they left this place truly.
My belief remains strong as ever, It is my hope that begins to wane.
Written By Sameera
April 29, 2017, 12:21 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
How Princess Donella Thrax is would be my type were I into females. Though, I have no real interest in women that way.
Of the male variety, I think, it would be similar to how Duke Harald Grimhall is.
I lack the desire to do the touching of people thing, however. Such musings is rather useless but it has come up.
Written By Sameera
April 29, 2017, 12:16 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Carita
Written By Sameera
April 29, 2017, 12:12 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Ariel
Written By Sameera
April 29, 2017, 12:11 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Juliet
Written By Sameera
April 29, 2017, 12:10 p.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Anyways, I intend to create a 'half way house' or safe haven for former thralls. I've no interest in trying to get involved with the current thralls, as that is not within my power to deal with and I am not against thralldom. I am not looking to save those in thralldom just to help those who have been released.
My plan is to create a self sufficient village that acts as a haven and a place to assimilate to the world of being free. To arm those freed with proper skills and knowledge to what to do when out of thralldom. Not everyone was 'free' before becoming a thrall. Children are not thralls but their parents are so, life for them is not any grander than being a thrall. Right now, I understand what it is that is needed for the land my brother has set for my uses. Easing thralls into the new life of not being one. To make them more than a drain on society, really. The end goal is they will give back what is put into them.
I am hoping to gain more support for this and aid from people who wish to give a hand to former thralls and aid in helping those who need to understand the meaning of being free.
Written By Percephon
April 29, 2017, 11:30 a.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Lianne
On further consideration, she's to get my scalpel. She knows the one. I'll even be nice and make certain she gets it before said service, just in case the pain is so bad she needs to dig her eyes out. (If you do, tuck them in with me? You know I've always wanted to use them. Maybe I'd get them in my next life.)
Written By Calaudrin
April 29, 2017, 10:30 a.m.(5/13/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Armel
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