Empires of Ashes

Diana: "LI? that's a strange name."

"All our names are like that"

Diana: "...Is it a number? fifty one?"

"yes"

Diana: "Why would they name you with a number? like a slave?"

"Not a slave. But I do not know why. It just is."

Diana: "Strange... very strange. In any case, you said you found me.... interesting?"

"You are Dracian...But you also aren't"

Diana: "I was, i don't feel it anymore, i don't have a connection with my home anymore."

"What happened?"

Diana: "You have heard of Adrine bridge? the... 'battle' there. I was taken prisoner by the kelthrovi slavers."

"What did they do to you? I do not know what Kelthrovi do with their slaves. I have not had the chance to ask."

Diana: "You... dont want to know. The men are used for their armies, the women... the lucky ones are house servants."

"...They hurt you..."

Diana: "Yes, they did. But i killed them in return." *She spits on the floor*

"Where"

Diana: "Thernylum. It's the closest city to the border at adrine."

"...*reaches into a pouch and pulls out a map*

*Points on it* "Here"

map:

"That is far from here... But I will go there one day"

*insert well written description of a secret meeting place in the woods here*

Trajan and his guards are there, trajan polishing his sword

Diana: "it is a fairly dismal place."

Li:"No less worthy of my blade."

*Their near silence is interrupted by the Cymraic king and his own guards walking into the moonlight and revealing themselves*

Trajan: *smiles but doesnt stand* Your grace

Diana: "their time will come when the King is dead."

"Too long"

King: Trajan

Trajan: how was your journey?

"Uneventful. Yours?"

Diana: "you will be occupied until then, with the war?"

Trajan: likewise

Li: maybe. But they hurt you. I like you.

Diana: "You... just met me?"

"I did"

"Why did you request a meeting with me?"

Diana: "Well, i wont question it then, you seem like a good friend to have."

"I think you know"

LI: thankyou. No ones said that before

Diana: "Really? You're not friends with the other clavae?"

"I want to say it's the newcomers but knowing Dracia I may be wrong"

"You arent talking to dracia, youre talking to your brother in law. And youre right"

Li: the others are quieter than me

Diana: "Really? why?"

"What is it you wish to discuss about the bastards?"

"Well....of all this isles rulers I trust you the most. Do you think voldamia and cymrai can hold them?"

Li: we arent made to talk. We fight.

Diana: "...Made?"

"I...do not know how. I had no parents. I just...was"

"It's what I told them when their princess decided to 'negotiate' ."

"Be honest with me your grace. No patriotic statements or bravado."

"We'll hold them. As for vital information that I have no doubt you'll thank me for. They use full body plate armour, like what you use but better. Similar to what my son is designing. Their Warships carry massive versions of the Brigardi weapons. Mordred sent a report on them a while back after 'borrowing' one from a scouting party. These 'Dragons' can fell a man at a hundred paces wearing full mail. It wouldn't be too much of a jump to assume they are armed similarly"

"And what happens if you can't? If none of us can alone? Not you, not me, not any of us."

Diana: "Thats..." *Thinking*