[A letter to the Grandmaster Elizabetha d'Auvergne] (DM)

[Xenoboskion]

13th Maribeh IY 7788
Priory of the Sibylline Vine

To her illustrious ladyship Elizabeth d'Auvergne, Grandmaster of the Order of the Cinquefoil Rose
From the Sister Nebtu of the Priory of the Sibylline Vine, with salutations

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My lady of roses, hail. Eight blessings upon you and your celebrated line.

A garden of roses is the Krak, whose walls are the bulwark against which the hordes of Iakmes shall break, and whose gallant guardians garland you shall with the wreaths of victory.

From the heart of the garden, however, the hoarse croaking of a poison toad reaches our ear.

One of the mercenaries of the Red Band who serves your Rose Banner, a woman named Emilia, has on this day called in public for the hanging of one of the Acolytes of the Sibylline Vine. The cause for this is naught but the girl's name, which she, as all Acolytes do when they enter our walls, has turned her back upon.

We pray of your ladyship that this croaking be silenced, which pollutes the beauty and troubles the peace of the rose garden.

The prayers of the Sisterhood for your health and fortune are with you unceasing, and our boundless love.


Thine humble servant,
Sister Nebtu