[Filter: Keller]... so ( Read more... )

Oh, dragonsdammit.

I was really enjoying the lull, lately. All the conflicts in Korin have been things that Rayla doesn't want anything to do with and haven't asked for our help. It's been nice, really, just working on stregthening the walls and building our army and doing nice things, like funneling money at the Academy ( Read more... )

Hah, I knew it. Asking in a roundabout way did wonders. I had them all giving up little pearls of information soon enough, just by asking about the current trainees.

Hm, it seems as if someone was a little cheeky when he was a trainee. In fact, all I keep hearing is about how he was so bad at following orders and relished every opportunity to talk ( Read more... )

Eh, it looks like all the people you found for me were dead ends, Kray. It was clear enough they didn't either know anything or didn't want to gossip when I put out my feelers, and I don't exactly want everyone in the castle to hear that I'm snooping on my men for my own amusement ( Read more... )

It's being shockingly hard to find someone who was around here twenty-five years ago.

Those I can find who were in my father's service around that time were mostly away with war, not dealing with training new recruits. And it's times like this I realize that I'm really not a Queen of any sort. I think some of them might know people who were around ( Read more... )

[Filter: Private]

It sounds awful, but I'm not sorry to see him leave.

I ... can't help but get the feeling this is going to get out of control. No one has ever really been brave enough to take on Sarrca, not like this. If they really commit to it, things are going to start happening. There isn't a House in Korin who doesn't have an opinion on ( Read more... )

Argh, I cry foul! Babies grow way too fast!

I'm looking at Mal clinging to Lara's hand and getting steered around the parlour and it's sort of blowing my mind here. How did she ever get so big?

I swear, she was just born. I remember childbirth very clearly. Like it was yesterday! And now, she's almost two? That's just wrong. She's all toddling ( Read more... )

[Filter: Private]I do feel awful about looking over my shoulder at him every second. I should be trusting him -- I know that. He's my husband, he's the father of my daughter. Dragons, this marriage has got a bleak future if I'm already starting to worry about him undermining me ( Read more... )

[Filter: Kray]

Look, we need to talk.

I talked to Verity, lately. She thanked me for promising to do a whole list of stuff that I would never have agreed to. I didn't really remember offering any of that, so I asked her if she was maybe drunk? And then she told me that you apparently approached her with all of this ( Read more... )

[Filter: Ree and Keller]

I guess I really can't put this off any longer ...

I'm sure you both know that Kray has been all up on my face about the people from Franel being headed to Korin next. I decided to talk to Lord Lawrence about it on my own time.

There's not much concrete I can say, yet, but he told me that he was still thinking about what ( Read more... )