She still didn't speak on the matter of his mother and sister, but she did find herself considering her stance. She heard where Nathaniel was coming from, and she herself knew that there was no stopping Rendon once he got started. Yet, even so, there were always options. An option was still an option even if it meant losing everything... but that might be too much to ask of someone unprepared to survive on their own during a Blight and a civil war. It was food for thought, perhaps something to discuss with Fergus. But it wasn't something she could give on now.
But the next revelation was something entirely unexpected. A fiancé in the Free Marches? He'd left her to come get some things and gotten stuck as a Warden. In some ways, she couldn't blame him - wouldn't she have risked much to get an heirloom or two back in his shoes? Maybe. Probably. Alright, in all honesty, she would have been on the first boat out and would likely have made a mess of it too.
[color=#17b529]"I don't know if you can let someone down easy in circumstances like yours. All you can do is give her the courtesy of closure - and she deserves that. I think you know that."[/color] Not telling her was the coward's way out, and she didn't take the man standing before her for one. [color=#17b529]"Letting her think death took you, it's a cruelty no one should want to impose on someone they love."[/color]
Knowing someone was alive but could not return was heartbreaking, but not soul-crushing in the way that death was. She would much rather have been able to tell Fergus that Oriana and Oren had run off back to Antiva rather than face his grief at knowing they had died horribly. But face it she had, and own up the the consequences of his actions Nathaniel could.
But the next revelation was something entirely unexpected. A fiancé in the Free Marches? He'd left her to come get some things and gotten stuck as a Warden. In some ways, she couldn't blame him - wouldn't she have risked much to get an heirloom or two back in his shoes? Maybe. Probably. Alright, in all honesty, she would have been on the first boat out and would likely have made a mess of it too.
[color=#17b529]"I don't know if you can let someone down easy in circumstances like yours. All you can do is give her the courtesy of closure - and she deserves that. I think you know that."[/color] Not telling her was the coward's way out, and she didn't take the man standing before her for one. [color=#17b529]"Letting her think death took you, it's a cruelty no one should want to impose on someone they love."[/color]
Knowing someone was alive but could not return was heartbreaking, but not soul-crushing in the way that death was. She would much rather have been able to tell Fergus that Oriana and Oren had run off back to Antiva rather than face his grief at knowing they had died horribly. But face it she had, and own up the the consequences of his actions Nathaniel could.
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