Written By Augustus
July 15, 2018, 10:47 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
More specifically me. They've decided to test me.
Who in their right minds could consider silk and cotton - no matter how well refined - to be even close to equivalent?
Written By Skye
July 15, 2018, 10:45 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Written By Aurora
July 15, 2018, 8:55 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
As for the sudden disinterest in silk, what do you think steelsilk is?
Written By Lys
July 15, 2018, 8:49 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Written By Augustus
July 15, 2018, 8:40 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Naturally with so many of my kin lost to us, it feels more bittersweet to sit there now. So often I would advise or counsel my young granddaughter or my great-niece in those gardens... I am not one prone to emotional over-reaction, but I cannot help but feel mournful among the shrubbery.
I certainly hope this feeling will ease. There's much to be done.
Written By Edward
July 15, 2018, 8:29 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Fairen
Written By Jovarn
July 15, 2018, 7:56 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Goodness, I leave you all for a few months, sailing and adventuring you know, and the whole city is dancing to a different tune.
Unfortunately, it looks as if there's not enough hip-swaying involved in this number, so I'll have to dance on my own again.
Please don't remind me how long it has been since you all last saw me, I detest feeling old.
Written By Raymesin
July 15, 2018, 7:52 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
'Ang on, why the bigger letter at the front of Scholar? What're you tryin' to... oh. Right. Never mind. I got things to do.
Written By Orelia
July 15, 2018, 7:44 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
I feel I've perhaps been rather over-indulged this week. Not that I'm complaining.
Written By Felicia
July 15, 2018, 7:38 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
And managed not to laugh at my being slapped in the face with a pine branch.
Hopefully I shall be able to be of some small aid to the Society in future.
Written By Ida
July 15, 2018, 7:01 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Paige
I want this to be very clear: Forgiveness is only afforded to those who are actually sorry. If you come for my friends, I will never forget it.
Written By Felicia
July 15, 2018, 6:48 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Lady Elara was one of them.
I shall cherish her pin until the end of my days, even if right now its mere sight brings me to tears all over again.
Written By Dycard
July 15, 2018, 3:46 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Were one of the greatest tailors of Arx to make me an outfit I'd wear it with pride, even were it three strips of wool. I might wear it with undergarments - that stuff itches - but I'd wear it and be glad of it. I arrived in Arx wearing rags, grateful to have arrived at all.
Were one of my liege lord's lord's kin to offer me insult, I'd protest to my lord and let her deal with it. Perhaps I am old-fashioned, perhaps my House cleaves to traditions that were no more by the time some others were created, or perhaps Thrax does not handle such matters the way the rest of the Compact does, but I learned at my mother's knee that such is the graceful way to handle these things. I arrived in Arx hoping that my brother had survived and sure that all my other kin were dead, and finding that I still have a family, someone to whom to give my fealty, and a place in the world will forever be a joy.
Perhaps it's the ordeals I've endured, where simply surviving another day was a victory. Perhaps it's the ordeals I've seen, where death became a blessed end to suffering. Perhaps it's the memories that haunt me through the nights that tell me that there are more important things in life than what seems so vital to life here.
While Arx whiles away the idle days with duels and parties, others pay for that with their lives. Some of you knew Countess Paige, many of you far better than I. She was a woman who did her duty. Will they be able to say the same of you?
Written By Theo
July 15, 2018, 3:44 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Written By Vanora
July 15, 2018, 2:56 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
I'll keep wearing silk, whether simple or extravagant.
A little bit of home right on the skin, soft and perfect.
I should go shopping...
Written By Vanora
July 15, 2018, 2:53 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Cambria
So indeed, this is why we don't always get our way.
Until the moment we do, which is always /wonderful/.
Written By Duarte
July 15, 2018, 2:26 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Signe
Written By Signe
July 15, 2018, 2:22 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Written By Silas
July 15, 2018, 2:15 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
The one time I let my cousin borrow them he immediately noticed and bought another pair for them so he could get them back... which probably cost ten times the amount they were worth.
NEVER CHANGE.
Written By Monique
July 15, 2018, 1:30 a.m.(3/12/1009 AR)
Relationship Note on Paige
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