05-22-2018, 10:44 PM
He is always glad to see his older children embracing the younger generation, and the affection between Bel and Grye is no different. Brennen watches them for a moment more, a faraway look in his eyes and a smile on her face, before turning his mind to the actual meeting at hand. He’s unsurprised to find Warrick on his doorstep - Wound had given every indication that he should expect such a thing after she has returned home. He nods his thanks now as Warrick compliments their island home, and looks at it with eyes alight with the knowledge that it is a place of great beauty.
“I’m sorry to say I haven’t had the opportunity to visit Tephra, though I am sure it has its own unique beauty,” is what he ends up demurring, though he is also quite sure that if they do end up in a relationship, he will have plenty of opportunity to do so. Before he can say anything else, the yearling colt has moved from being pressed to Bel’s side to his grandfather’s, lips reaching up eagerly towards Brennen’s dark-tipped ear. Obligingly and mostly out of habit, the bay bends his neck to listen. ”Did you know Tephra has an exploding mountain?” Grye tries to whisper it but his voice carries nevertheless. “Is that right? Well you can tell me all about it later,” Brennen answers him in a much quieter tone, and then catches the end of Belgaer’s statement and nods solemnly.
”I agree that it would be very valuable to both our countries if we were to align ourselves. I would feel very much better knowing that one of the two land-ways onto Ischia was on land controlled by a friend.” The path across at low tide from Tephra is less well-used than the one from the other side, but still Brennen can not be in two places at once to supervise low tide. ”We do seek peace, the Brotherhood, but not at the cost of a defamation of our values. Loess has stolen one of our own, and Sylva has as well, and treated him poorly. I see no good in them, only a desire for violence and chaos, and so Ischia will stand against both Kingdoms if they continue their reign of terror.”
“I’m sorry to say I haven’t had the opportunity to visit Tephra, though I am sure it has its own unique beauty,” is what he ends up demurring, though he is also quite sure that if they do end up in a relationship, he will have plenty of opportunity to do so. Before he can say anything else, the yearling colt has moved from being pressed to Bel’s side to his grandfather’s, lips reaching up eagerly towards Brennen’s dark-tipped ear. Obligingly and mostly out of habit, the bay bends his neck to listen. ”Did you know Tephra has an exploding mountain?” Grye tries to whisper it but his voice carries nevertheless. “Is that right? Well you can tell me all about it later,” Brennen answers him in a much quieter tone, and then catches the end of Belgaer’s statement and nods solemnly.
”I agree that it would be very valuable to both our countries if we were to align ourselves. I would feel very much better knowing that one of the two land-ways onto Ischia was on land controlled by a friend.” The path across at low tide from Tephra is less well-used than the one from the other side, but still Brennen can not be in two places at once to supervise low tide. ”We do seek peace, the Brotherhood, but not at the cost of a defamation of our values. Loess has stolen one of our own, and Sylva has as well, and treated him poorly. I see no good in them, only a desire for violence and chaos, and so Ischia will stand against both Kingdoms if they continue their reign of terror.”