Florentino,

Say what you want about Verrucht, or Cyrene. Your propaganda falls to deaf ears, however I will say this.

Cyrene is not the shallow city you seem to think it is, and do you know why? It is because we as a people stand strong together. We support each other, we support people like Verrucht. We are all a part of the city together and we protect each other in times and need, and we are there for each other.

When a choice like that falls on us, we do what is needed. Not for Nature, the Light, or what have you. But because we as a city, believe it is the right thing to do. Our strength comes from our unity, something I don't expect Mhaldorians whom resort to actual barbarism and kill each other to understand. But that's okay, continue to be the "unchallenged captial" of art, culture, and intellectualism. We will be here, high in our mountains, standing strong and not bowing to what ever force that thinks they can threaten us or bend us to their will.

Because simply? Like the mountains we reside it, we will not fall and your words are just like the blizzards we endure every day, fleeting.

In song,
Scarlattan Lilian Xanatov

Penned by my hand on the 24th of Valnuary, in the year 657 AF.