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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3153732" data-attributes="member: 3448">Everyone startled at such a blatant statement, and Dame Brionna quickly cut in.  “In your fight against the skaven and the slavers, your highness, I wonder if you have heard any news of Sir Denro Barnstaple of Kilbourne?  We were betrothed, and I still hope that he will return although he has been missing all these years.”The Princess’s face fell.  “I know of him, and his efforts on behalf of my kingdom, but as you say, he has been missing for many years.  We can hope he still lives and will return, but…  So many have been lost.”Alistair nodded his head and looked at Kaitlyn compassionately.  “I have known what it is to lose close family.  My mother died when I was young, and then in the past year I have lost both my father and my grandmother.  But I can only imagine how much worse your pain must be, with all that you have been through.”“We have all suffered terribly.  The invasion and the conflicts that followed have slain all of the other members of my family, but it’s worse than that.  Among our friends, among the vassals that looked to us for protection, so many are goner, and even those that survive struggle-- I sometimes think that the survivors are less fortunate than those that died quickly.  Certainly many of those we have rescued from slavery have thought so.”  She shook her head sadly.As the mood veered past melancholy to bleak, Dame Brionna thought to Kit, <<Well, I was trying to divert the conversation…>><<Good try…  I’m sorry… I wish that she’d had better news.>><<There’s still a good chance that he survives…>>Princess Kaitlyn continued, “My advisor says that those of us who survive are stronger than we would have been; I’m not sure I believe that.”“Your advisor?” asked Mahler, wary of the influences on Princess Kaitlyn.  “One of your father’s old counselors?”“Yes, his archmagus, Lord Devron Manyhands.  I retained his services after my father’s death, because I needed both his counsel and his arcane might to protect my people.”  The heaviness in her voice did not abate.  “I do not expect that we will ever be able to retake my homeland, much as that pains me.  But our best hope is to build a new kingdom.  For that, we will need strong allies.”<<Lord Devron Manyhands,>> thought Dame Brionna.<<Manyhands?>>  Kit managed to make the epithet an accusation.<<I’m not saying I like the name.>><<Yeah, me either.  Another person for us to look into.>></blockquote>

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