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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 4752671" data-attributes="member: 4936">For a moment Shayuri is caught between two titanic forces. The debate is starting, and her father was counting on her! The debate was one of the events where she really believed she could excel! She could make him proud of her, could score much needed points for lordship. Without a good performance in the debate, it was almost impossible for her to win anything at all.But...If she really could save a life...and not just any life, but the near-immortal life of a dragon...didn't she have to? Wasn't it right? What would it say about her if she chose a -chance- at winning a lordship, and a thin chance at that, over a chance at saving a dragon from a terrible fate? What kind of lord would she be then?She thought it would be a hard choice, but it was really no choice at all.That didn't make telling her father any easier.Her feet felt as if they'd been hollowed out and filled with lead as she ran after him and caught his sleeve. Her skin felt cold. She accepted all this, and whatever was to come, as the consequences of her decision."There's a dragon ill from the plague who needs my help," she told him. "If there's even a chance I can save him then I have to do it. I won't drop out of the tournament, but I won't have his death on my conscience either."She takes a deep breath and steels herself."I'm really sorry to disappoint you...but I have to go."</blockquote>