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Written By Shard

Oct. 31, 2017, 3:23 a.m.(7/1/1007 AR)

Relationship Note on Skye

You make a good point about the rest of the Compact. You're right. The rest of this though...seriously? A lifetime (and it is, almost always, a fucking lifetime, with almost no chance for freedom) of servitude is your idea of a better, third option to those two choices? To raiders, Thrax might offer more; the rest of the Compact generally offers nothing more than the sword, and to some, maybe, maybe, a life of servitude at the hands of their enemies is better than a quick death. But you talk about bending the knee, and that is an option offered as an oh so wonderful beneficial kindness to the more peaceful Abandoned tribes the Compact encounters. And you're saying thralldom, usually a lifetime of thralldom, is better, because while they're washing your clothes and serving you meals and mucking your stables and farming your fields or digging your mines they can see what a wonderful generous fucking people you are? While they're torn apart from their tribes and their homes and their lands that you've taken for your own and carted off to wherever you please to take them, they can be grateful that at least you've allowed them to PAY BACK the debt they owe YOU for the war THEY forced on you?

Do you really fucking believe the utter bullshit that they were all raiders and bandits that attacked you first? Or have you somehow actually convinced yourself that all those Abandoned war thralls that show up in your House's care were all just asking for it by existing on your lands before you got there? You're welcome to this view, but don't write some nonsense essay about how you're so much kinder and more considerate to the poor mistreated Abandoned by dragging them into thralldom instead of murdering them where they stand or strong-arming them into giving up their freedom and way of life to swear fealty to a king and a people that are complete strangers to them. You aren't doing your side any favors.

Written By Gawain

July 9, 2017, 4:18 p.m.(10/21/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Skye

I've begun to give Lady Skye riding lessons this week. She's taken to horseback remarkably well, and I'm impressed at how much she's accomplished in such a short period of time.

Written By Larissa

July 1, 2017, 12:11 a.m.(10/4/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Skye

And of course, I cannot comment upon one instance without saying something about the other. In this instance if was myself that was cold and unwelcoming, and I can only assume that a previous entry had me in mind. You ask for compassion, I will ask for understanding. I was unkind and likely I will keep my distance simply because I cannot ignore the scars of my past. They are all that has shaped my present and my future. I hope you find your own healing in our city. I hope you find welcome and a home. Perhaps time will throw us upon a different path together.

Written By Carita

June 29, 2017, 12:51 p.m.(10/1/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Skye

I will admit that I was uncertain in my first meeting of the Lady Skye Blackshore. An impolite mistake that I will hope to correct as soon as I am able to.

For now, my sincerest apologies are offered.

Written By Regla

June 25, 2017, 11:10 p.m.(9/21/1006 AR)

Relationship Note on Skye

Cousin Skye.

She's lived the sort of sheltered life I have nightmares about. But, we'll make certain that you are not locked away from sight and experience, now.

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