Quoted By:
Lady Sadarnuna, Keeper Of The Tides
Two women have emerged from the pleasure yacht, accompanied by a quadruped animal of some form.
The taller woman glances with disapproval upon a distant figure, by the shore of the Lightning Sea: an indistinct figure, ranting and raving, jumping up and down and gesturing wildly and incomprehensibly, scratching contour integrals and differential equations by the shore of the Lightning Sea. The Sea does not respond to them.
The tall woman's features are refined and Highborn, but they have been blemished with a peculiar disfiguring scar, as if scorched by some corrosive fluid that had been hurled upon her face.
Her companion exclaims:
- I do not understand, Lady Sadarnuna - why has one so inexperienced been entrusted with such a delicate matter? One so innocent and naive... The Lightning Sea will drive them to madness...
Lady Sadarnuna replies:
- Because the matter of Lady Praxagora's Epithalamion cannot be given to the intellect that is selfish, calculating, devious or cruel. Already they have debated at great length in the Palace upon the Discourse Of Salt And Iron; the debate will not cease until one side has their way, and I suspect it will not be with tithes and tribute, but rather with fire and cannon. Even now the emissaries of The Isonomy await out answer. I think they covet what we Possess, they desire to possess our Sea. Perhaps it falls to Vourukasha to decide, to whom She should belong.
