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Post by Storyteller on Jun 8, 2021 13:12:11 GMT
"What I experienced?" asks the young man, walking back toward the village. "I was stopping by the Diving Gryphon to get some muffins to take to Valius later, when I saw Valius--he did look just like Valius!--come running through the street to the Magistrate, who was passing by, and he stabbed the Magistrate right there, then ran off..."
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 8, 2021 15:54:02 GMT
"Did Valius ever talk about having anything against the Magistrate?"
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Post by Storyteller on Jun 8, 2021 22:37:02 GMT
The young man sniffs. "No, he'd hardly even spoken to the man. I think the Magistrate had even ordered some wool from Valius, I mean Mar."
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 8, 2021 22:58:10 GMT
"Did you testify against him?"
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Post by Storyteller on Jun 8, 2021 23:10:09 GMT
Vedius Tatian looks down. "I couldn't do it. I just couldn't. I knew I ought to, but I ... I pretended to be sick. I stayed in bed. If it's true it wasn't him, then I wish I had been there! Just to ... show support. I didn't even go to the execution..."
His tears flow freely now. "He died without me there to comfort him!"
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Post by Diocles on Jun 8, 2021 23:37:18 GMT
"You stayed in bed? Good lad! You did the right thing in not betraying your heart."
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Post by Storyteller on Jun 8, 2021 23:58:50 GMT
Vedius Tatian looks up at Jund, with a flicker of hope. "I hope that, wherever he is, Valius will agree with you, that he won't hate me..."
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Post by Diocles on Jun 9, 2021 0:06:34 GMT
I pat him on the shoulder, but that is only cold comfort.
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Post by Storyteller on Jun 9, 2021 0:23:22 GMT
The group of you reach the little Forum, where the execution block would have been set up on the day. Valius Mar is, visible only to Kestal, pacing back and forth, railing.
At the sight of the group of you, he stops and howls. "Vedius! Come to mock me?"
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 9, 2021 0:23:49 GMT
(Are we at the square yet?)
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Post by Diocles on Jun 9, 2021 0:24:55 GMT
(yes)
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 9, 2021 0:25:43 GMT
I peer to make sure Valius Mar is around.
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Post by Diocles on Jun 9, 2021 0:26:10 GMT
(Dude, read what the ST just wrote)
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Post by Sir Roland Desprez on Jun 9, 2021 0:34:16 GMT
(My bad, missed that post.) Looking at Valius Mar meaningfully I say "So Tatian, you're telling me that you couldn't bring yourself to testify because of your love for him? You couldn't do that to him?"
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Post by Storyteller on Jun 9, 2021 0:50:14 GMT
"Yes," says Vedius Tatian miserably. "Even though I saw him with my own eyes, I ... I couldn't do it. I loved Valius."
He sniffs valiantly. "I just wish he knew. And ... is it true? Is it true that he didn't do it? Ort said..."
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