un: absterge

[downswing]

A child failed in Ke-Waihu. Again, in Serthica.

Here, young Princess Cle-Florens, convinced of duty as sacrifice. We cannot abandon.

Elsewise: beware the Wards, the Gut's Bind. Death wanders.

If you have come possessed or hell-tainted, speak.

Comments

un: white pawn; text

[chosenbylight]

You are proposing to steal her away from her remaining family, against her will.

[Just so we are clear.]

[vdovy]

Her remaining family forgets her existence.

[downswing]

I heed alternative.

[chosenbylight]

It is not that I don't see your point. Cle-Florens is young and innocent, and she is in a difficult position, as the youngest member of a royal household.

I suppose the question is whether her safety truly is in jeopardy. And what the alternative will be for her, if she does leave the life she has known here. To travel with us, as Zenobius does? Wherever she goes, she will need to do so in disguise. She is an asset of Alem, for better or worse, and she has and will be so for as long as she remains Cle-Florens, sister of the king.

[downswing]

She will suffer no danger from her people, once Alem falls.

Her role ends.

[chosenbylight]

And is it their opinion that she should die to protect them as well?

It is a slippery slope. If she should survive while their city does not, they may blame her. Perhaps it is best we do get her out of here, and far, far away.

[downswing]

Anduin. Youth honours you.

( And wavering, the lack of conclusion conceded to one's elders. The lack of accountability. He recalls all too well the game, heading to a war chosen by his betters, grateful not to determine his own compass. Failing thereafter.

Pawns are not freed by dithering. )

But decide position.

[chosenbylight]

My position is that she has had people deciding her future for her entire life.

Perhaps it is too late for her to have the capacity to make her own decisions as it stands, but she should at least be given the chance, before someone just knocks her out and sticks her on a cart and simply continues that cycle.

[downswing]

Noted.