>>5727103>>5727149>>5727361>>5727609>>5727620>>5727801>>5727854>>5728096Sorry good sirs, after many days visiting old fortresses without any connection to the probably magical and heretical internet I am back ! Hosannah !
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You finally decided to receive the man in an audience, since you had nothing better to do you ordered the trials to be suspended and saw him in private in your apartments. The man was tired, clearly he had not slept since he learned of the imprisonment of his daughter and you saw that despite his calm facade he was worried. He passed a hand in his brown hair, you then thought that maybe his wife was the red haired one, and explained.
-Thank you my lord, thank you, thank you for saving my daughter and for the audience. You are good and wise.. thank..
-Yes, yes, I suppose that you are not here only to thank me, what do you want ?
-I... My lord, understand, I want to plead for my daughter, my last daughter, as every father would. What do you want... I... Suffered from the transformation of gold into silver but had some money in the bank at pleasantville, I ordered someone to fetch it to me, in a week it should be here, I can give you all that I have, 1000 gold coins. I know that it is not much...
It was very much for a peasant, even here when they paid in gold. Hey, a fee of some hundred gold coins represented months of work for the average man but this man had the only sawmill in the lordship and it was a lucrative business. You answered.
-A bribe then... But you know that your daughter is guilty ? She made up the story of this ghost with her friends.
He sighed, visibly sad for his daughter and told.
-My lord, I beg you to understand me. She is.. she is my last one and she was marked by fate since birth of course she wanted to be an adventurer. Maybe I should have been harsher with my parenting. Of course, and I will try to do it, but she does not deserve to die, she has learned her lesson, I believe. I am the first victim, she took my wood and my cart after all to do this, so please spare her.
You thought about it, and asked.
-She is your last daughter, you have other children to spare ?
-Five my lord, five but I love each one of them as a father should.
-Five daughters ? And no son ?
-No...
-Mary mother of God... How unlucky you are. And I suppose that you wanted to marry them ?
-Yes, of course, I try to find each one of them a good husband even if Delilah has left to join the imperial legion and...
-Sorry what ? They let women into the permanent host ? Ah yes... Indian customs... Let me reformulate, you left your daughter join the permanent host ? A place full of rapists, degenerates, mercenaries and soudards where my brave Ancel would figure as a model of virtue ?
