136: The Proposal
When Blume came back she took a closer look at Luciana and spotted that she wore a pendant that might be in honour of Solkan, the god of vengeance and justice, and decided that Luciana’s anger suited that of the angry god. Erina told Greta what she had learned about Fassbinder, and they decided to keep an eye on her, and as Fred was already keeping an eye on her, she was being well observed. Erina said that he had mentioned that we would be travelling south, and Greta said that Volkmar had said the same thing to her. Baron Heinrich was talking to Graf Holzkrug and Blume sidled over to catch what they were saying. Sometimes her plainness is an asset. She had been trying to make the baron notice her since they had first met, but she was beneath him, and Holzkrug didn’t take any notice of her either. Holzkrug said, tensions between Ostland and Talabecland has been simmering for generations, and had more to do with control of Ostland’s forests than the death of Crown Prince Hergard and ...