The Duchess's Departure
Posted by Dafne on 03/23/17
My cousin Sylvie, Duchess of Gemecitta, has always loved her people. All my life, I have admired her dedication to Gemecitta and to learning how to embody the best of our family, to be the Duchess Gemecitta needs her to be. Even as darkness closed in on us she has been travelling back and forth to make sure her people both at home and in Arx are safe and well and ready to weather the storm now battering at the gates.
However, it is with great sorrow, I must confirm--she has left us. For where, I know not, but I do know she left of her own free will. And, as I know my cousin as I know myself, I know only the absolute conviction she was doing the right thing for our people would have drawn her away from her duty.
She left behind a note, as well as the ducal seal of Zaffria. In her note, she urged me to take up her mantle. And, although my heart rebels at it, for the love I bear her I would not deny her request. The footsteps I walk in are large, but I pledge to Gemecitta I will walk this path the best I can. Thus, I sign myself:
Duchess Dafne Zaffria.
<Beneath the signature, the impression of the Zaffria ducal seal in wax.>
However, it is with great sorrow, I must confirm--she has left us. For where, I know not, but I do know she left of her own free will. And, as I know my cousin as I know myself, I know only the absolute conviction she was doing the right thing for our people would have drawn her away from her duty.
She left behind a note, as well as the ducal seal of Zaffria. In her note, she urged me to take up her mantle. And, although my heart rebels at it, for the love I bear her I would not deny her request. The footsteps I walk in are large, but I pledge to Gemecitta I will walk this path the best I can. Thus, I sign myself:
Duchess Dafne Zaffria.
<Beneath the signature, the impression of the Zaffria ducal seal in wax.>