Written By Magden
March 28, 2017, 3:21 p.m.(3/4/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Valdemar
Written By Magden
March 28, 2017, 3:20 p.m.(3/4/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Dafne
She must be very alone.
Written By Dulcinea
March 28, 2017, 3:13 p.m.(3/4/1006 AR)
Today, I have decided to be especially pretty.
I need to believe he lost something, too, and it's making his heart hurt so it's difficult to breathe.
Logic dictates, if I truly cared for him, I would wish him nothing but joy.
Perhaps that comes in time.
For now, I am a terrible person.
Always,
Me
Written By Merek
March 28, 2017, 2:54 p.m.(3/4/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Malena
Written By Dominique
March 28, 2017, 11:23 a.m.(3/4/1006 AR)
Written By Freja
March 28, 2017, 10:12 a.m.(3/3/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Brier
I'll have to find her and buy her a whiskey or twenty when this impending doom business is all over and done with.
Written By Joslyn
March 28, 2017, 6:16 a.m.(3/3/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Calypso
Today, I had asked to meet with her, and it was far more productive than I had expected. She asked me for details on the attack in the Lower Boroughs, and I obliged her. She asked me the questions, and appreciated my intel. I felt rather important for a few moments.
Eventually the real reason that I wanted to speak with her came up, and I asked how I could better serve the defense of the compact. After a lengthy conversation, I became an agent in the Ministry of Defense. I'm looking forward to serving with her.
Written By Aislin
March 27, 2017, 11:08 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Valkieri
I didn't know Duke Valkieri Rubino that well; we tended to orbit the same people, but interacted ourselves only rarely. A sparring match, a dinner or two, occasional messengers. I kept telling myself that, sometime soon, I'd have more time and would sit down with him.
There isn't enough time in the world for everything we'd do, I suppose.
In the end, I knew him best through the opinions of those we both cared about: Cara, Vincere, Pietro. And all of them thought well of him. Even when they were at odds with him, even when they were cross with him, they loved him. Even though by all accounts he wasn't an easy man to get along with.
And he loved them in turn.
Whatever else I might say about Duke Valkieri, in the end, he loved and was loved by so many of those I care about.
I can't help but feel the world is poorer for his loss.
Written By Dulcinea
March 27, 2017, 11:02 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
Now Percy and I can drink together and cry.
Huzzah.
~Me
Written By Ailys
March 27, 2017, 10:41 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Aiden
Written By Lazarus
March 27, 2017, 7:56 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
Written By Calypso
March 27, 2017, 5:56 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Valkieri
Though as time moved on, I began to truly see Duke Valkieri for the brilliant mind that he was. His stern exterior kept so many at a distance, and I feel fortunate enough to have been allowed to look past that, even if just briefly, and see a man dedicated to his people and steadfast in his values.
I am mourning his loss. There are so few who speak the language of War fluently. I will miss our conversations.
Written By Dafne
March 27, 2017, 4:11 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
But I am still trying to catch up on paperwork, and the Seraph was Valkieri's friend, and most of Gemecitta still thinks of me as a little girl--
So much turns on little things sometimes.
The guards told me not to go in. They told me not to, but I did anyway. And I saw--
No. I can't describe it, because Cara will read this and she doesn't need to know. But I still see it when I close my eyes. All sorts of deaths can sound poetic, even beautiful when you write about them, but being faced with the reality of what violence does to the human body is very different.
I closed his eyes. I knelt on the floor and closed his eyes so he wouldn't stare sightlessly at the ceiling.
I cannot say Valkieri and I were ever close. Perhaps if he lived--but he could never believe I had grown up. He hated my cat and my stories and thought i was strange. But, beneath all his prickles and passion, he was _true_, truer than anyone I'd known. He was a rock, and he held the world in place. We are lesser for losing him.
Valkieri. Sylvie. Vincere. Pietro. So many gone. Almost all I think of as family.
Is Gemecitta cursed?
Written By Belladonna
March 27, 2017, 3:13 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Valkieri
I will miss you, my friend. More than I have words for.
We fight on.
Written By Samantha
March 27, 2017, 2 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Mirari
Written By Cara
March 27, 2017, 1:04 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Valkieri
Written By Aureth
March 27, 2017, 12:54 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
We fight for Arx. We fight for the Compact. We fight for life and the cycle and all our souls.
I do not pray to Death to let this not be the ending of all endings.
That is what Death has prayed to us.
Written By Eirene
March 27, 2017, 12:43 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
We're Greedy Mother Fuckers is one of my unit battlecries. I want more. I want every last unnatural thing to fall under my sword. I want every wound and every harm healed until it's a painful memory and Gods help me if I could do something to ease those nightmares and flashbacks and haunted eyes I would. I want the cause of this hurt eradicated.
Because I sleep among the dead and dying. I rest my hand on the brow on the fevered and chilled. I watch the life slip away from their eyes and the last breath pass their lips before their souls and bodies disconnect. Every life I cannot save is a slap in the face to my skills and my determination. Every lost life kills a part of me as well, leaving anger and sorrow in its' place.
Spend a few minutes, an hour, a day in the House of Solace where our soldiers lie. In the Saving Grace where many of our civilians lie. Spend some time among those who have been terrorized body and soul by these monsters and unnatural fucks and see if it doesn't booster your resolve to do -everything- in your power to defeat them.
Gods know I will.
Written By Eirene
March 27, 2017, 12:38 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Valkieri
What is it about Gemmicita that provokes our enemies to strike at them through supernatural means?
Moreso - now in additional to INVISIBLE bringers, we have masqued ones.
I'm going to look in my ring a lot more now-a-days...
Written By Ailys
March 27, 2017, 12:34 p.m.(3/2/1006 AR)
Relationship Note on Merek
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