EP46: Salai's Tale

Lord Titus and Lady Lucretia Vale have at last found time together after a grueling emotional gauntlet, joined by her confidant Indra — the three sharing a night of healing, passion, and connection.

Sylai's Tale. Corporal Sylai seeks out the Fellowship, bringing a soldier's perspective to the events unfolding within and around Juramentum. Lord Titus and Lady Lucretia Vale have at last found time together after a grueling emotional gauntlet, joined by her confidant Indra — the three sharing a night of healing, passion, and connection. Come dawn, Lucretia opens a scroll from the Emperor she has been delaying for moons. His orders are as devastating as she feared: render all aid to Leptis Regium in subduing Juramentum. Titus declares his love. For once, the lady's ironclad conviction upon how history must unfold is shaken. She has been desperately seeking an alternative to the one unbending certainty: power rules. Grip and Mithra engage in ritual combat under the watchful gaze of Beloved Trisli and Justicar Mirza. Though initially caught off guard by Mithra's speed, Grip proves too potent. Marcus and Alba encounter one another after a sleepless night — she in agony at the thought of betraying her faith, yet declaring she would rather blaspheme at his side. Marcus proposes to marry her a second time under Taweia's sight. Devran, the trickster from Xahar, encounters a mournful young Livius and manages to restore some measure of conviction to the boy, offering to show him something that isn't real.