Accipiter:

While I do not claim to know the ways of forestals, it would have been
my assumption, having no prior knowledge at all of the customs of those
to whom you belong, that harvesting in another's grove without
permission is, indeed, an inflammatory offense to the grove owner. It is
really simply common sense. If you were a person who sold apples for a
living, you would be quite upset if someone came into your yard where
you kept your apple tree and took all but ten of your apples from you,
without asking. And then, to add to your anger, they nonchalantly said
to you, "Nothing personal, it's just business."

The fact that the young druid in question (forgive me, old age makes me
forget names easily) is, in fact, "merely an apprentice" has little
bearing on the fact that you trespassed on HIS (his, right?) grove,
which is, for all intents and purposes, his "property" forever and ever.
It does not lessen your transgression, even if he could not harvest it
himself. That is not the dispute here. The dispute is that you, not even
a true forestal really, waltzed into his grove and stole what
(technically) belonged to him. And then you had the audacity to simply
brush him off.

Perhaps next time you will choose the grove of someone equal to your
might, and they will teach you that it is rude to take things without
asking. Even children know that..

Sincerely,
Iliana Lucoster


Penned by my hand on the 3rd of Scarlatan, in the year 401 AF.