Zaydesh

[Andrei Katrares]

You have broken the highest law of our polity. Back home would be chained to a camel and driven through the desert sun without food, water, or respite such that the dust of your bones becomes one with the dunes. You would be stricken from our histories, our loremasters no long passing down your name. You have shamed your kin and your ancestors and everything we fight for, die for, and stand for by submitting yourself as a willing slave to creature that would gladly dispose of you at a whim to serve her best interests. 

But I cannot admit that, after seeing that mark upon your clothing, I was also without fault. I offered to pay healers to leave you to die, and looked for ways to isolate you to kill you. This conduct, these thoughts, were unbecoming of me - for how can I be an elf who claims on one hand to call for unity and civility, and on the other, act this way as a slave of emotion, without honour?

I do not know your history. But I suspect you do not know ours. I ask the chance to teach you our story, and dissuade you from giving up your freedom. Perhaps I do not deserve it, but perhaps neither do you. Still, I put it to you that I would rather give you a chance than give up on you from the start.

I know you can read. I have seen you cast. Do not feign ignorance of this notice. 


~ Ferdouz Saida

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All paths go to places that are only different in superficials. The mask and the philosopher can find peace in greater forms than mortality.

Penned for: "_____"
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