<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/Bfwmw0T.jpg)<br/></div><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Mother Freya</span></div><div align="center"><strong>Tagging:</strong> Kieri</div><br/>The tiny goblin leader would suddenly find herself once more standing within a shadow, though her shade now took a human form. Looking back she would see it was none other than Mother Freya herself, standing alone with what looked to be a picnic basket in hand. Kieri may be surprised to see a "rival" aspirant in "her" territory, but Freya never really bought in that kind of segmented mentality. The Sanctum was their home, everyone's home, and she knew she could tread anywhere within it freely, despite appearing to be alone. Of course she wasn't really alone, far from it...<br/><br/>"Well hello there my emerald child, how fortunate to come across you here" she cooed softly, motherly, a warm smile on soft lips, "I wanted to pay you a visit today, and give an overdue introduction" she said, giving a small, humble bow of her head, "I'm Freya, Mother of the Healing Church of Aros. It's a pleasure to finally make your acquaintance" she introduced herself, "I also wanted to extend our thanks on behalf of the Church for helping with the Grimoire incident. Such dark magic would have lead to great suffering all over Hexville, though no doubt here in the Inner Sanctum worst of all" she said, offering the basket to her. Inside were several loaves of bread along with various fruit preserves. Not the most lavish of offerings, but hopefully it would be appreciated never the less, "Here, it's not much, but please accept this as a token of gratitude, along with the favorable blessings of Aros of course. We always have more to offer at our public luncheons, so feel free to have your people join us sometime. The Church seeks to feed all who hunger, regardless of affiliation..."<br/><br/>With that said the nun turned to survey the construction work being performed, not unlike what she had her own people assist in in other parts of the district. It was a far cry from cutting the heads off statues, which she could appreciate. Though standing side by side the two local leaders would make for quite the amusing contrast, a tiny goblin shamelessly standing stark naked and a modest human draped head to ankle in thick robes, "I see you're also committing some time to restoration work. It's good to see our Inner Sanctum being healed like this. Perhaps I could call down some of our flock to assist you?" she offered. Never turning her gaze away from the workers dutifully going about their tasks. She had come to a personal realization lately, the beauty that could be found in seeing people work together. The Church's ambitions were quite lofty, and everything she's done so far has been to expand it's power and influence. The positive effects of their outreach were seen as a fortunate side effect of that work, but were never the main goal. However she realized that power was empty if it was not used for something, and obviously having control over a prosperous city would be better than ruling over a pile of dirt. And of course a unified, safe, and peaceful society was much easier to hold the reigns on than one divided, the Princess would come to realize this soon enough...<br/><br/>(Civilization for Freya's second path)