[Filter: Servants of the Goddesses in Cleraine]

What was that? Was that -- Lord Reiz?

He said something about his sister. Has Robert been pestering the Karnach girls, as well? I ... I had no idea. I thought that we were his ... victims of choice, how bizarre.

I don't know what that was about, but it must be true. I certainly believe it of ( Read more... )

[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]

This isn't happening fast enough. Mother can go on all she likes about scars, she is hardly the one that must endure humiliation whenever she wishes to take tea with a cornerstone ally of her campaign.

Mothers above, this is intolerable. Grant me the patience I require. I cannot lose my composure. I cannot let that ( Read more... )

[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]

I need to do better, tomorrow.

I need to be good at this. This can't be like the last ball the Queen threw ...

... Oh, I just know Raezi is going to make this difficult. I can see it in her eyes. She's been waiting for an opportunity like this. And Audreyna ... she was not pleased to see Raezi, that's certain ( Read more... )

[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]

I know she thinks she's being helpful. I know she does. But she's --

She's so indelicate! Why do people ... like her, so much? She's so ... she talks and talks and talks, she asks embarrassing questions, she has no sense of ... of personal space. She just drags herself into whatever business she likes, and no one ( Read more... )

[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]

I ought to be very grateful to that woman. Whatever else the Lady Felizia is, she's certainly an ample distraction. No one is even likely to recall how awful my showing was, there, not after that. It's all her and how bold and daring she is. And arguing, of course. Always that. Was that scene she made justified? Does ( Read more... )

[Filter: Lady Aes, in Atsirian]Lady Aes, hello. I hope that I am not interrupting you as I write this; please, respond only at your earliest convenience ( Read more... )

[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]

I should have known. It's ... obvious, when I truly sit and think, that this would happen. It's just as Mother says -- who else? It must be me ( Read more... )

[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]

What is he up to now? No one hardly dares breathe, and he arranges a gathering for the entire court?

[Filter: Mother, in Atsirian]

Have you heard about this ... affair, being held at the Atsir manor?

[Filter: Dairanne, in Atsirian]

I ... it occurred to me, today, that I never sent word concerning everything we were discussing, before. I -- would still like to meet, I would, but ... with the situation the way it is, I cannot say when I could. I do apologize, but everything is so ( Read more... )

[Filter: Private, in Atsirian]

I wonder if we're too late. Surely they've begun the ceremony, by now ... if we've missed it entirely, I fear the Queen may never forgive the slight. Mother says she will smooth the situation, whatever it may be, and a late entrance is more dramatic, to be sure, but ...

Mother says ...

... I wish she would tell me ( Read more... )