>>5713344Your gaze settles on Eka uneasily at that though, of illness and death. Your three-chambered heart beats a little faster, and she seems to notice, laying her head upon your chest as she is.
“Theral?” she asks. “Is something the matter?”
IS something the matter? Well, that depends on how you feel about the news you earlier received: King Archos of Hawksong is ill, dying, perhaps even DEAD given the information lag. Eka and her father have not been so clos, these last few years, but she still loves him dearly—you know that much. The bond between the two is such that he kept her like a treasured artwork—a reminder of his lost wife—in the gilded cage of his palatial estate. Their bond was such that when she committed to marry you, an adventuring stranger and a foreigner (albeit ‘merely’ an easterly human, to their knowledge at the time), he silenced his own nobility’s opposition and defended your union out of love for his daughter and trust in her judgement.
Will you tell Ekaterine?
>Yes>No 