Diplomatic Immunity--Preface: Vasha's Discovery, Part II

[Bront]

"How did Marrik die? Did you have something to do with it?"

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Did somebody say something about that? Don't you trust me, Vasha? After all we've been through together?"

 

[Bront]

"Alyz, you've given me no reason not to trust you, but I need to know. I want to know what happened. I want to know why." She looks sadly at Alyz.

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Do you want to think ill of me, Vasha? You can if you want...Everyone else does. If it makes me feel better, you can hate me too..."

 

[Bront]

"You loved my father, that I know. But I need to know if you killed him, and why. Please Alyz, I think you owe me as a Sister. You know as well as anyone that I believe everyone has good and love in them. But I think I have a right to know."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"They told you about the execution then?" she asks, sighing as tears come to her eyes, "It's...it's true."

 

[Bront]

"But why Alyz?" Vasha offers a compationate hand, tears coming to her eyes as well. "You loved him, and you are such a loving person."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"Be...because I loved him."

 

[Bront]

"Please, Alyz, tell me the whole story. Sister, I need to know."

 

[Rystil Arden]

"You saw what they did to Zythryd, didn't you? And Zythryd was just a potential witness...he wasn't even the one they were after...Imagine what they would've done to Marrik, and whatever your kind Nymph's mind can imagine, the truth would have been much worse...I couldn't let them do that to the man I loved..."