[RPG] [FEI][SL]A solution...a hope of healing...

[kathleen stalnaker]

<i>Hoshi emerged from the garden and joined the nobles of Svunnetland in the public square since this debate had spilled out into the streets and all reason seemed to have left many standing here.  The anger over this just below the surface.</i>

"Lords and Ladies of this land I am ashamed of all of you.  I am ashamed of myself for letting this go on for so long. I am sick at heart that things have come to what they have come to.

Morthwyl is attempting to put things to rights over the food and the taxes.  By the gods even Ariana made an attempt to do so...but they did not move fast enough or in the ways a few of you wished and so you cried out against them.  And I went along with your foul accusations because the answers they gave were occassionally less than polite.  And now I step back and see that you lady Hailey no matter what will not be satisfied by any attempts made to make things right.

And Einar you fan the flames of this bickering...to what end?

What I see developing here is a grudge borne of personal hard feelings being played out at the expense of the realm.

I am done with this.

Morthwyl, you have my support as this realm's Royal Treasurer...and while I have done much to destroy our friendship I hope that one day you will see that I acted as I did in the best interest of the realm and when my clouded vision cleared I took steps to right the wrongs I could.

Ariana, you are sometimes brash and often you forget your place, but I cannot fault you for those things, for I remember my youth...my clashes with my father.  I was always brash and constantly forgetting my place.  I hope one day you will let me live again.

Lady Hailey...you have every right to be concerned about your region and the people in it...you have every right to ask that 200 or 400 bushels be kept in Anrimap.  But you do not have the right to refuse to allow any food to be moved from Anrimap.  So I hearby decree that 400 bushels of food be stored in Anrimap from this day forward.  

I would like you all to note that Ariana never failed to see to it food was sent where it was needed...nor has Morthwyl.  

The tax structure has been revised...let us let a few tax cycles come and go before we decide that the changes are no good.

And Einar...you have spoken many things in my ear on this matter and I have listened to them all.  I have acted on them all sometimes as you have seen fit and sometimes in opposition to what you think should happen.  You need to trust me on this.

Let everyone present understand this...The gods have spoken to me, the gods speak through me...This discussion has played itself out...It is time to work together.  If you are not here to work together...to talk civily among each other even when we disagree then perhaps it is time to take your leave of Svunnetland.

If you can agree to giving the changes implemented a chance to work then let us begin the work of healing this realm."

<i>Hoshi sliced her hand with her dagger and held it out palm up...the dagger resting easy in her other hand,</i>"If you will stand with me to heal this realm step forward and bind yourself to the will of the gods and your Queen with the blood of your hand."


"Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?

from Sabriel by Garth Nix

 



 
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