Chapter 188

"But what is penitence, when a soul has intentionally chosen swords to fight his own country's forts at the face of war? There can be forgiveness for his disloyalty, but nev'r shall the republic accept him into their frontiers, be-cause once a traitor to the state, forever a foreigner in their eyes.

I shall pardon your backstabbing, but never expect to be an acquaintance of the same place in my heart yet again."

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The porch of the Caretaker's Cottage,

Betwixt the Kingdom of Tristendyre and the Hyll-Decantan Promontory,

Fair Morning,

Second Tuesday of the Second month,

Fiftieth Year of the Reign of Adon Vericus IV