[ She has to tilt her head thinking about that - it seems... unforgiving, so cruel to an already miserable thing, to be parted from someone you care about.

But what was she to know of his land, far from hers? When certainly, lesser men have tried to kill her and failed. ]

They are not stories. They were given to us by the Spirits themselves. [ A polite, if firm, insistence. ] But I suppose I can see too why there should be a strength found in survival. [ A compromise at least. ] ... Though there is another theory, I suppose, that this is the realm of another kind of Spirit.

But I do not know any Lord or Lady that should speak to their people such as this Hierarch has spoken to us now.