[RPG] [SL]Do not tarry...

[kathleen stalnaker]

Timothy Collett <delvin.anaris at gmail.com> wrote: Ariana's hand flies out of its own accord, and delivers Hoshi a stinging slap across the cheek. Before the echo has faded, Ariana's voice, ringing with fury, snarls:

 "We were not your friends? We have been attacked, slandered, accused, while you stood by and said nothing in our defense, and now you are driving us out, and we were not your friends? Hoshi, I once thought that you were a woman of reason, but it seems that some vile plague has claimed your wits. We have not sought to trample anyone's integrity or dignity. We have only sought to maintain our own. We have ignored no one: no one came to us in the first place. I have not slandered your husband, for he is dead. We have never sought to promote hate and intolerance, except of those who hate Svunnetland and what it has always stood for.

 "Hoshi, you are as Einar said: faithless, and unable to stand for yourself. You let yourself be blown wherever the prevailing winds take you. You were Judge, but you were unable to make a Judgement, even when the plain facts were staring you in the face.

 "You want us to leave?

 "Fine. We will go, and Svunnetland and all in it may fall into the Pits of Aya for all I care."

 She turns her back on Hoshi, and takes Morthwyl's arm to pull him along with her.
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http://news.battlemaster.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpg<i>Hoshi did not flinch, nor did she raise a hand or her voice against Ariana, she simply said,</i>"It appears you've just proven my point Ariana.  To voice a thought or an opinion contrary to what you hold to be the truth brings verbal lashes as well as physical violence.  Your actions speak loudly against you.  And were Svunnetland not already in some pit driven there by this sort of behavior I would not be standing here, my face stinging from the slap of your hand."



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