Northstar Vale there's a road to the righteous, that doesn't lead through hell

Aw thank you so much! <3

Patiently she listened, even as the young half-breed took her time to pick her words and what details she would share, the Empress didn't step into the conversation until the story was done. Expecting something to come along, but not what she had heard. Her smile had faded, taken over with a more concerned and melancholic mulling over whatever details were shared. 

It sounded so familiar. Takeshi came to mind. His forceful actions and presence causing all too real sympathy, empathy? to this woman's own story. The details were different but the message was all the same. At least the empress was no 'slave', not that she would see herself to be - chained perhaps, trapped in a relationship bound by her parent's wishes, but not a slave.

Oh dear... She began, breaking her own silence finally, taking a careful step toward the northern girl, a friendly visage filled with a mournful tenderness reserved only for the escapee. Nonsense. Never would she turn away someone like her. Not with a history as that. There are no such things here, you will be free and safe as a Reneian member. Free to join and go if you ever so please, we bind no one here against their will. It would be against both theirs, and Kaistleoki's beliefs. 

May I ask your name? Come, I will show you around, we can speak along the way.