>>5299094“However, this letter is not meant to retread past mistakes nor aggravate old wounds, not when more practical matters lie in the present and immediate future, namely those which concern Cecelia herself. As you may or may not recall from your own time as a young hopeful, the life of a nascent Seer is not a simple matter. Rather it is a fraught path requiring careful oversight and rigorous training that serves to safeguard the adept from harm and is an absolute requirement should they ever wish to realize their full potential.
“And young Cecelia’s potential is vast, vast enough to where the council in their wisdom and beneficence is willing to do what we have not done in a thousand years and allow her an opportunity to repatriate, to be cleansed of her exiled status and to be welcomed in full back into the loving arms of her people and once more be placed into the line of royal succession. To put it plainly, we are all but willing to guarantee her future as one of the most powerful women on the continent, given certain conditions are met.
“The first and most important of these is, as you might expect, that young Cecelia will be taken from your custody, now and in perpetuity. Despite our best efforts, we have been unable to convince the council of the need for your own repatriation as an extension of her own. Naturally, as a baroness of an outside territory and a non-citizen, you would then be unable to live in the Stone Isles proper to serve as an effective guardian, and so her custody would fall instead to her next-closest living relative: myself.”
“No.” With that simple statement, Cassandra folds the half-read letter back on itself and seems to be preparing to rip it.
> What to do?> [] Talk her down. She’s only gotten through half of it thus far.> [] Let her rip it. This isn’t diplomacy. It’s harassment. > [] Other. Write-in. 