Written By Mabelle
Jan. 30, 2021, 9:29 a.m.(11/6/1014 AR)
Relationship Note on Amari
Also. Artshall has other animals besides bees.
Written By Sydney
Jan. 30, 2021, 12:14 a.m.(11/5/1014 AR)
Relationship Note on Adalyn
It only sees before it the plummet which it knows could bring harm.
We are not meant to be ruled on instinct alone, but neither are we intended to ignore it. Whatever is coming next, keep your wits about you.
Standing still may not be an option, but trust in the part of you that begs you caution as the trajectory of your actions urge you forward.
Written By Nina
Jan. 29, 2021, 11:49 p.m.(11/5/1014 AR)
I'll do my best to make everyone happy with my latest styles! I am particularly excited about the new tweed fabric as it will be perfect to make newly stylish coats for the coming winter!
Written By Amari
Jan. 29, 2021, 11:03 p.m.(11/5/1014 AR)
While the fighting on the road continued, the siege towers that had been assembled in the surrounding wood were rolled out under the favorable sign of a flaming Greenmarch war elk falling from the sky. Spirits high, the towers and ladders were successfully and swiftly deployed, allowing the main body of her troops to breach the citadel walls. Once within, many cats were looted while the defenders frosted themselves and then evacuated by ship with their precious cat's eyes. Her archers were ordered to harry them as they were leaving the docks, but in a cruel surprise attack they were all killed by a giant cake.
For this crime, the remainder of the citadel's survivors were herded into the cat-thedral and burnt alive.
Let that be a warning to the Followers of the Cake. Queen Irama is merciless.
Written By Ryhalt
Jan. 29, 2021, 8:12 p.m.(11/5/1014 AR)
Now to find someone who can manipulate the material...
Written By Sunaia
Jan. 29, 2021, 7:41 p.m.(11/5/1014 AR)
(Please, put a good word for them.
They want to be an archivist.)
I honestly don't think I'll have a couple of days as -- not momentous, that's not the word I want to use, but motivating-- as the last couple of days have been. First and foremost: owning up to past (and present) mistakes. Admitting to them when you (like me -- I'm talking about me) are already a prideful thing (me) and you're already learning a lot a little humility. Own up. Work. It's hard and it's rough on the ego and having a sense of humor about yourself is needed -- but then you get a reminder that (woosh) that arrow slices through the air and you heard it and felt the brush of the wind against your cheek -- you may have missed the point, but somehow, you still learned from it. Secondly. Manners. That might be one aspect of civility that's going to be writ large in my thoughts for a while. Politeness. Never make an assumption. Sorry, Scholar, the rest aren't really full thoughts so much as they are impressions --
The boots, gods, I noticed them. Sand and salt-spray and the weird musty smell of wet dog. Long walks. Direct glances and comfortable, quiet pauses. Cutlery jokes with similar semi-feral friends. Amber and burnt umber and maple leaves and dark, dark hair. Mulled cider, with the faint tang of the hot metal. Loose hairpins. Alaricite. I wonder what such autumnal warmth smells like. Hammers. Deep questions. Wondering what ifs. Shared grins and easy laughs. Making that last sip last because you know if you finish it -- the conversation's over. But you're not ready to leave. Even if you know you need to. The smoky smell of fireplace in dried dog fur. Warm bed even though you're fighting for space with two huge dogs --
Written By Adalyn
Jan. 29, 2021, 10:14 a.m.(11/4/1014 AR)
Why, then, do I feel such trepidation about what is to come?
Written By Leta
Jan. 29, 2021, 9:26 a.m.(11/4/1014 AR)
The house is worse. Every door I open feels like cracking open a grave. The house needs airing out, anyhow, so I think I shall stay in a room at some tavern somewhere, for a while.
Written By Piccola
Jan. 29, 2021, 9:01 a.m.(11/4/1014 AR)
Do not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or ignorant, then those who come to the Compact looking for a new allegiance will conclude that we are concerned to defend a myth and our present privileged status. Every act that limits freedom costs us the confidence of men and women who aspire to the same freedom and independence of which we speak and for which our ancestors fought.
To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful; and to be truthful we must admit our failings.
Written By Delilah
Jan. 29, 2021, 8:13 a.m.(11/4/1014 AR)
Written By Lianne
Jan. 29, 2021, 7:34 a.m.(11/4/1014 AR)
Relationship Note on Duarte
We are not what we were. A few pieces salvaged from the wreckage of complicated years, but so much surrendered, so much changed. Whatever we are, whatever we will be, I am glad to have my friend near again.
Written By Dio
Jan. 28, 2021, 11:44 p.m.(11/3/1014 AR)
Relationship Note on Ciro
When I first saw the painting, I nearly dropped it. My vision blurred and tears streamed down my face in spite of my will. To hold in my hand the image of one whom I loved so dearly, who changed my life, and who brought so much to Ischia was an unthinkable blessing. I had not, nor will I ever forget her face - but to see her again in Ciro's painting brought back her voice, rich with the accents of the Oathlands, the smell of her hair, the sound of the clavichord that she so dearly loved to play.
There is no good man who does not wish to protect what he loves, and in that I have utterly failed. She was taken for granted all her life, and I never had the chance to convey to her how much she meant to me. When I enter the Shinning Lands, the gods will look on my life of infamy and violence, and see my greatest sin.
I was entrusted with true nobility, and was not there when she needed me most. Yet when I look on the one who took my hand, and joined me as the Countess of the March of Ischia, I feel an invincible resolve to live in such a way as would make her proud.
Thank you, Ciro. This is a gift I will cherish until my last breath.
Written By Mabelle
Jan. 28, 2021, 1:52 p.m.(11/2/1014 AR)
Well, not precisely. You can still attempt a swim or a long route through a shadowy forest.
And while the path is longer that way and more challenging at times, perhaps in the end it is more gratifying.
Written By Sunaia
Jan. 28, 2021, 9:31 a.m.(11/2/1014 AR)
I learned what happened before. I learned what happened after. It's the during that's still a huge hole. That time needs to be accounted so. I don't think you were welcome with them, no, not at first. Then you were. That's what made them remember your name.
Intruder.
Written By Lisebet
Jan. 28, 2021, 9:07 a.m.(11/2/1014 AR)
The good news is that I do enjoy a challenge at times. The bad news is that this is a huge challenge.
Written By Medeia
Jan. 28, 2021, 12:11 a.m.(11/1/1014 AR)
Yet, I feel intensely lonely. I miss Nel terribly. I found myself crossing the city and slipping into her room and just sitting on the edge of the bed, like I would when we would catch up at the end of the day sometimes. I can write to her, but that isn't the same as sitting beside her passing a bottle of whiskey back and forth, watching her distractedly unbraid and rebraid her hair.
I swear, Scholar, I don't make a habit of hiding away in other people's unoccupied rooms. There's just so much I want to tell her in person instead of in a letter.
Written By Sydney
Jan. 27, 2021, 10:37 p.m.(11/1/1014 AR)
The young and the bold often remain such when they fall on the field they've chosen not to be afraid of.
I'm more inclined to trust to fear.
You'll find fewer more reliable teachers with more lessons to give, and the gift of a great deal of time on this spin of the wheel to digest them, surrounded by the fertile soil of the unflinchingly and unfailingly courageous.
Written By Lucita
Jan. 27, 2021, 9:08 p.m.(11/1/1014 AR)
Written By Lucita
Jan. 27, 2021, 9:02 p.m.(11/1/1014 AR)
Written By Vashtalyn
Jan. 27, 2021, 8:08 p.m.(11/1/1014 AR)
I have another commission I am working on as well, though it is slow. First, I must finish the project I have started, which consumes my days and nights. Never have I put so much effort into a single project. I hope that I will have it finished in time for the event.
Somewhere in all this, I will need to find time to make some things for myself. I should get back to work.
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