[RPG] [FE][SL]Shamed

[Jeff Guillot]

Adrahil sat alone in 'his' suite in castle Palnasos. A ceasefire...

He had been considering its implications for hours. Had it come to
this? It seemed like just yesterday he had been speaking to Hoshi...
that beautiful queen, beautiful not just physically but spiritually as
well...

...Speaking to her alone, negotiating a deal for the surrender of the
city. But then, Valius had been elected, the realm had begun to
stabilize, and Adrahil had lost his chance. He doubted he would have a
chance now to ever give that lovely woman her prize... the city she
loved.

With the ceasefire, Hoshi was dropping Svunnetland's claim to the
city. Adrahil felt a door close... a door to a possible future. Would
he really be stuck fighting with this motley group of warriors, trying
to forge something out of nothing?

He had come here for another game, another venture... but he had found
something more, but for a moment. Now, he thought, that game wasn't
fun anymore... and that something he had found was slipping away.

He poured a tall glass of wine, and sighed... the birds sang gently
outside in the afternoon breeze.

C'est la vie, he thought. C'est la vie.