<div align="center">Aryia (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=88798.msg3898535#msg3898535)<br/></div><br/>Aryia meant well but unfortunately she did not understand responsibility's someone of Arex's statue had to endure. For right reasons and wrong she believed he was a man that just wanted power and the expense of others having options. In a way this was true for the culture he was governing needed more order to prevent chaos ruining everything and Aryia didn't realise how good and comparatively easy her own strange community had it.<br/><br/>Most with half a brain wouldn't get in the kings way or interupt him not after seeing his city burn, not while being effectively grabbed by his own guard and thrown on a ship while was in the heat of commanding, and doing a damn good job of it too considering.  The city needed a king that was more a general, one like Arex for many dangers were constant, in such environments people had to be hard, they had to be ready.  Worse still despite her other mage's warning Aryia not to annoy royalty, she didn't understand their power or privileges they had. So she did what should be done ... unknowingly choose to be an obstacle for a man that needed one to lash out at in frustration of what was lost so quickly.<br/><br/><strong><br/>"My liege, perhaps they are needed where they are ? The ships are over-loaded as it is only expert sailing could see the civilians to a place other than a watery grave. None saw this coming, their actions have saved a lot, perhaps a reward is in order, I did promise you would reward them later, some I promised from my lands treasury, some I promised you would ... forgive me for being assumptous implying I had the right to but I needed to convince them to linger for more to arrive, I didnt know what else to do. I can gather your upset with what's lost but think of what we have saved ! Miracle yes ?"</strong><br/>