[private] You can't hide from who you are; Kagerus

[Kagerus]

kagerus

and in my dreams, i kissed your lips a thousand times

The changes coming over my nation are slow-burning, building up exponentially but not yet close to the curve upward which looms ahead in the future, unpredictable but certainly unavoidable. I think upon what may come to be more often than not, spending more of my time with Solace than I normally would; who can blame me? In the light of what may soon come to be, I cling to what has been for so many consecutive years now.

I love my wife, and I always will; she may not know this, but even from that first day that I met her in the hock-deep waters of the lake, my efforts for Hyaline and then the East have always been for her, more than they ever were for the lands themselves. Perhaps that makes me a bad leader, a bad queen, a bad wife; but I cannot dwell on those thoughts infinitely, for fear of falling prey to ceaseless insanity.

Luckily, there always seems to be distractions popping up when I am most vulnerable to the black thoughts which plague my mind worse than any sickness ever could. Today that distraction comes in the form of a mare. She looks like a stranger at first glance, and that suspicion is reinforced by the way she stands patiently on the border of my kingdom; but as I tread closer, Arabian figure moving liquidly across the rugged terrain, something about her seems familiar. I can't say that she and I have ever met, but she smells poignantly of the Leviathans; clearly though, she is not the Khaleesi (or at least the mare I knew to be the Khaleesi previously), and therefore must be coming on some other kind of business.

Alas, all of this is speculation, and as I alight next to her with the prongs of my proud antlers glimmering overhead, I recognize that I shall most likely be getting answers from her, anyway.

"Hello," I begin, my expression completely neutral and my body language the same. I would greet her more enthusiastically were her aura more of one seeking refuge; but it is clear by the way she holds herself that this meeting shall require a different approach to my typical greeting of newcomers. "My name is Kagerus, and I am a Queen Caretaker of this land, the Sanctuary - I am sorry to say that we have not met. What is your name, and what business do you have here?"