[RPG] [FE] [Svunnetland] Zen

[Eric]

kathleen stalnaker wrote:

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> At the mention of children she turned from him...her eyes heavy with 
> tears...
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> "I know that things and land are just that...things and land...but 
> they are so much more sometimes...Palnasos is my heart...Svunnetland 
> is  my heart...I've sworn an oath to protect the people of this 
> land...it is not an oath I take lightly...it is not an oath I could 
> easily walk away from...."
>
> Until recently Hoshi had not realized how much of who she was...was 
> tied up in this place and its things...how much she defined herself 
> through her service to this land and its people...

"Duty and service?" He posed the question without looking for the 
answer.  He wiped the tears from her cheeks and looked at her with 
earnest.  "But how best do you serve the people?  By toil and 
suffering?  Or it is through living and finding a meaning beyond oath 
and title?  Trust that I know that you can give of yourself until you 
are bleed dry, until all you are is what you do... but tell me my love, 
didst not the soul of our people starve when I thew myself into being 
King and ignored that I was a man?"

"The happiest days for the Kingdom is when we are more than our image 
and are people as well as governors."  His voice grew soft and gentle, 
"You are allowed to be a woman as well a Queen, you are the soul of the 
people my love... when your soul starves so does the soul of us all."  
Einar kissed her forehead lightly, "You know better than most that I 
speak the truth."