~ well. I will take these matters into my hands. Don't you fools know anything?
To kill off a flower, you must first rip it apart by the roots. #UnderTheShallows
I don't understand. We sent an entire frontline. Yet you're telling me our numbers are dropping? To [o n e] person? A little girl who wandered too deep down the abyss and you pathetic sods can't take her down. <He doesn't mask his disappointment.> Very ~
.....? Hold position. Someone is approaching. Just one person--
"Father Vacys! It's-- It's [h e r!]"
So I see.. <Even he didn't predict an ambush like this. He remained sat mounted on his wyvern however.> It is but one troublesome woman. We are ~
Paal must be desperate if he was moving /now/ of all times… but he wouldn’t be careless, she knew that. “I see, I will have to put my own plans on pause, then.” For now.
“No need to panic; Hold steadfast. I have just the woman for the job in thinning the horde… Get me —
— single hand lifted to dismiss the others in the room, leaving her alone with her source of information. “Right before my coronation rehearsal,” she clicked her tongue. Removing the the well-placed crown from her head, setting it down onto the vanity’s surface. #UnderTheShallows
A ‘handmaiden’ approached in a hurry, moving past the tailors and stylists to whisper something of upmost importance into Azalea’s ear. Whatever it was made the pink-haired mermaid’s eyebrows raise, her lips pursed into a thin line; She didn’t look afraid… just /annoyed/.
A —
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Brethren. It's been overdue and I think you for your patience...But I am proud to announce that finally it is time.
Azalea the Sea Witch [m u s t] die.
#UnderTheShallows
My absence has gone long enough. <He mumbles. His eyes shut and he walks away from the pathetic excuse of a shrine they had made for his late wife. Her ashes kept in an urn.> Oh Lania.. <She would always watch over him this way.>
You have only left us for ~
~ a year and already the state of the Leviathans has fallen from grace. Morale is pathetic. Our sons...
Our sons.
<The 'good' Father looks over the remaining army of his empire, awaiting his speech as he approached the balcony overlooking them.> ~