04-16-2009, 02:24 PM
"Alexander is...I understand." Mickal said, eyes wide. If Alexander had actually died, then things were truly and undeniably dire. "I will send a message. I will also inform Axel and Alexander's home keeper. She will need to remain longer than first anticipated it seems." And with that Mickal vanished.
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Grace waited silently in her room, her daughter dreaming soundly in the crib next to her. She looked up suddenly and though no one was there the action was more than simple movement. She could feel the coming storm and she knew that the end her her people and herself was drawing ever closer. She tried to shed one last tear for her people, who were now doomed beyond doubt, but found that she could not, she had no tears left to give. And so, alone, doomed and unable to express it, Grace's soul trembled in the pits of its darkness and she knew what it was to be truly anguished.
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As Sally, the old home keeper who had worked for Alexander all her life finished making the bed, she patted Neko gently on the head with a smile. "Dont worry. He wont forget you." She assured the cat girl, who had predictably suffered through her papas absence. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Sally quickly walked to it and opened it. There was a messenger there with a letter. After a small word of thanks and respectful bow, she closed the door and sat on the bed. She opened it and read it, it was a part of a report, but the meaning was clear as day for the old house maid. "Alexander...."She muttered softly, the letter dropping to the ground from her trembling hands. Upon it were the words "Champion General Alexander has been declared as lost in combat. His end came at the hands of a joint force of enemies, mainly franks and Brits. The honored champion died in service to the war leader, and as such his will is to be retrieved and read before War leader Hunter." Only Sally knew where he kept his will, and she never thought she would live long enough to see it again. The paper fell to Neko's feet and the poor old woman was to lost in her own sorrow to correct her mistake.
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Grace waited silently in her room, her daughter dreaming soundly in the crib next to her. She looked up suddenly and though no one was there the action was more than simple movement. She could feel the coming storm and she knew that the end her her people and herself was drawing ever closer. She tried to shed one last tear for her people, who were now doomed beyond doubt, but found that she could not, she had no tears left to give. And so, alone, doomed and unable to express it, Grace's soul trembled in the pits of its darkness and she knew what it was to be truly anguished.
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As Sally, the old home keeper who had worked for Alexander all her life finished making the bed, she patted Neko gently on the head with a smile. "Dont worry. He wont forget you." She assured the cat girl, who had predictably suffered through her papas absence. Suddenly there was a knock at the door and Sally quickly walked to it and opened it. There was a messenger there with a letter. After a small word of thanks and respectful bow, she closed the door and sat on the bed. She opened it and read it, it was a part of a report, but the meaning was clear as day for the old house maid. "Alexander...."She muttered softly, the letter dropping to the ground from her trembling hands. Upon it were the words "Champion General Alexander has been declared as lost in combat. His end came at the hands of a joint force of enemies, mainly franks and Brits. The honored champion died in service to the war leader, and as such his will is to be retrieved and read before War leader Hunter." Only Sally knew where he kept his will, and she never thought she would live long enough to see it again. The paper fell to Neko's feet and the poor old woman was to lost in her own sorrow to correct her mistake.
