Dagda

I wasn't sure how fast this thing would catch on. I mean, people know Rae's going places, obviously, and I guess I never had too much exposure to just how fast something that looks good can catch on. I guess what I'm saying is that I see at least five other people with their own tries at the flowers, and heads are starting to turn. Obviously it's going to take some practice before they get it right -- It's mostly men who have to fold flowers up here, for Rose Day -- but it's a start.

I guess what I'm saying is keep up the good work.

Okay, it's time to say Happy Birthday to Eina. So far we're still a Kingdom, we haven't been invaded by anyone, no one's tried to depose us, and no one's starved to death since we got the food problem sorted out. I feel like that's a pretty good report on how we're doing.

There's some fun things happening around the city today for that, and then a big tournament tomorrow.

Fingers crossed for another year where people feel safe coming up here to live because we've got big plans.

[Filter: Gebann]

I like Kira. I swear I do. She's good at what she does, we never have any problems, she's a great ally for us.

It's still been almost a month now and I still don't know what to think of her proposal besides the fact that I keep wanting to put it off.

[Filter: Melyndra Destra]

I know Gebann voiced some concerns about the people you planned to send up, but I've taken care of it. They're not going to get into any trouble coming up here, and I'm taking care of the whole matter personally. Gebann's still got some issues with the whole idea, but I've managed to convince him that the spirit of our new Eina takes precedence. Everybody's welcome.

I wanted to give you an advance update on how we're going to be handling the issue of our marriage since it brought up a whole bunch of issues. The basics of it is that we're calling it a communion up here, and it's going to be recognized under Eina law as a legal bond between two men or two women when it comes to bringing two people and their families together. It's important to our current situation that it's legal, and it's not important to either of us what it's called as long as everyone understands that this is marriage without the name. It's also important to me, personally, that anyone else who wants to have the same thing can get it.

Anyway, I'm glad you chose to talk to us when you did.

[Filter: Sawyer]

We're going with communion instead of marriage, and we're pretty happy with it. Glad you spoke up when you did.

Now please tell me that you're happy and you never gave Kail another chance because I've been pretty curious about how all of that played out and there hasn't been a good time to ask yet.

Holy shit. Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit!

You fucker. You know I don't do great when everybody is looking at me on top of that big podium! It's a good thing I could never say no to that, or I wouldn't have known what to say at all. Fucking lucky I didn't embarrass myself in front of all Eina right there.

I'm going to give a quick aside here because it sets all of this up. Right before we let the pegasus knights loose for their jousting, Gebann proposes to me in front of the whole gathered crowd. So we're getting married. I'm still not sure how that's going to work but ... yeah. I'm not saying no.

And congratulations Rae on making it to the finals! Second place isn't bad at all for our youngest competitor. But yeah. Holy shit. I'm going to be King Consort of Eina for real!

[Filter: Gebann]

Hey. Heard through the grapevine that Kira's planning to take Rae out on one last training flight before the whole thing gets underway. You might want to get her to hold off on that if you're planning to tell Rae about all of this? If you're planning to do that soon.

[Filter: Gebann]

Hey, are you busy tonight?

[Filter: Private]

Fuck everything.

This isn't going to be enough. Forget getting there in time to assassinate Keran, we're not going nearly the speed I thought we would be. We might not even get there for Moon Festival. We lost miles yesterday that we're never getting back.

... Maybe it's just the first day? People got used to not marching. Maybe.

Worst of all, I think we've got a massive morale problem cropping up.

[Filter: Lauren]

I keep hearing about bad things about the pegasus knights. I thought Tabby was on top of everything, but the reports are only getting worse. Do you know what's going on with Tabby? If something's wrong, we need to get it right.

[Filter: The Eina Army]

Alright, everyone knows what to do. It looks like they've got the walls distracted enough that by the time we get there everything's going to be ready. I think it's time to get in there. Let's fucking charge.

[Filter: Private]

I've been putting this off the whole way here. It's not even going to get any easier. Not if I put it off until we're all the way back to Eina together.

I am part of Gebann's family now, no matter what they're going to think of me. They're the only family I'm going to have at all, because I'm sure as hell not meeting up with my family again. If I don't reach out to Tabby before this whole thing is over I might not get a better chance later. It's easy enough for Gebann, they're blood. I'm just the guy who wants to be blood.

[Filter: Faith]

How are you feeling about dealing with Gebann's lords lately? I haven't heard any complains from them about you, and I just want to make sure I'm not putting you in an uncomfortable situation with what I want to ask you to do here.

[Filter: Lauren]

I know you've been meeting with Tabea a lot lately now that we're all one big happy family again. I'm guessing they're getting pretty intense now that the action's so close to starting up, huh?