[Filter: Elliot]

I've made it to Aeda, and now I'm at the place where this could all fall apart. I'm going to book my passage to Colndor under a pseudonym, and i was hoping you could help me poke holes in my story where you think it might be lacking?

[Filter: Sylea, Ferselle, Noye]

I'm afraid I'm not yet able to get close to Noye. The seas have been too calm, and the blockade would trash my ship too badly if I made a break for it. What I have managed to do is capture a smuggling ship, and offer its crew their lives if they help my cause. I placed a loyal captain over them. They have orders to attack other merchant ships.

Is their any chance you took their strategy plans for their ships when you retook the city?

It's not great out here. It's only taken us a few days to find tracks that we're almost sure are rebels. That's what the commander says they are. I think it's just a caravan, but my opinion doesn't matter when it comes to tracks. They have trackers. I'm only here for my tactical expertise. My expertise is telling me that we shouldn't go chasing after civilians, and that we're wasting time we could be spending tracking the real rebels.

I don't like this commander.

[Filter: Private]

The Koriners are gone, forced out and marching towards the border. Lireth is almost back to how it was. And yet ...

I'm terrified. The longer he stays, the more I remember what he did. My secret, buried for so long. If not for his wandering hands, I could have accepted being his wife. Father would still ... I'm so afraid that one day, he will say something, that people will suspect ... He will not understand how it will ruin him, he lacks the morals to even grasp the idea, as long as it gets him what he wants.

I ... I can't be alone. Not while he is here.

[Filter: Private]

Something awful, she says. I'll have to do something awful in order to drive my unwanted guests away. And my, what ideas I have, but which will be the most fun? Oh, but I do love my nephews. I hardly ever see them, nowadays, and they are growing ever so curious about the ways of the world. There is no such thing as too many father figures for a boy. Why, good men were lacking when I was their age, and I would venture anyone can see how that has affected me~ I would hate for them to feel as lost as I did during my youth~ Hn, yes, I have so much to teach them.

Everyone in Floran is getting very excited about the Night of the Dead! It is only two weeks away now, and some people need all that time to make their costumes. Sometimes, the theatre sells very old costumes that we don't use anymore away to actors or anyone who wants them. Maybe I should see if there is anything that I would like, or maybe I can get an idea for my costume this year from them ...

It's lovely, seeing all the children play together. Most of them are so similar in age, and the older ones treat the younger ones so gently. There are times where play can become a little rough, but I think the boys are quite surprised that the girls are not as fragile as they may appear~ Little Lady Mae has been insisting on a tea party all week, and she wishes for all her new friends to be invited, so I hear, even the boys. I'm sure it will be quite a sight indeed. I will have to remind Aaron of his manners before he presents himself to Lady Mae's table~ And if he protests, well, the swordfighting can come afterwards.

[Filter: Rayla and Ree]

Let's play a game. I'll call it "What Else Could Go Wrong". We sent a scout over with those men we shouldn't have brought over to that village, didn't we? And we haven't heard back from them?

Haven't thought of a prize yet. Maybe the winner gets to suggest one. I'm feeling generous.