[private] What's My Next Assignment? [Lepis]

[Lepis]

lepis, comtesse of taiga RUN AND TELL ALL OF THE ANGELS; THIS COULD TAKE ALL NIGHT i think i need a devil to help me get things right The champagne stallion holds himself proudly, and Lepis is certain that he bears good new right up until the first word falls from his mouth. ‘Though’, he begins, and the dun mare knows that whatever follows will not be news she wishes to hear. She balances the disappointment with the memory that her own trip to the other island had been immensely successful. It is not the end of the world, she reminds herself. She has plans in place already to attempt to salvage it, idle thoughts that grow and develop into a plan. “Our territories,” she emphasizes the word, because there is an ache at being reminded she is not a true queen, “have been friendly until now. I won’t be the one to make that untrue, though I intend to speak to Ruinam myself, to see if I cannot remedy this.” Ischia had gone so well, she thinks, and she struggles to believe that this leader of the Island Resort would be so opposed to Loess that he would let it affect the safety – and fitness – of his own people. Ruinam would have sided with Tephra in the war, she realizes. He thought their assault of children was acceptable, but not the steps taken to prevent such a thing happening again. His loss, she decides. It’s not as though Taiga’s fighters would have been able to learn much from cowards anyway, Lepis tells herself, and then nods and repeats her earlier thought as Aten falls quiet. “His loss, then. We have been successful in reaching out to other lands, at least.” @[Aten]