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@Legit Violet He couldn't believe his new assignment. It was like his life, his prestigious position at the Grand Duke's side, was going from bad to worse in a matter of months. When the bastard's mother first came into the castle and he had to watch over Medina like her own personal body guard, he continually bit his cheek and did as Calent requested. But when the bitch became pregnant with Calent's second bastard with her blood...
Calent said he had taken it too far. And not to be offended that he was, in a sense, assigned another more 'important task'. He couldn't completely blame Calent, but he also couldn't shake the disdain. It was an awful taste in his mouth that Calent was abusing his position when he was clearly cut from a stone meant to protect this kingdom from the nasty magical fiends that tainted it.
When the Grand Master of the mordecai was presented in trial for his mage like powers, of course the coward had run. What was left was the clean up. He was in charge of so many and to have that many skills mordecai just turned over to be presumed as criminals too just wasn't an option. So the Grand Duke left it Zannrick to sort through the questionables, which lead him straight to the prison where Fade Rylian now remained.
From what he gathered, she was an outsider and he wasn't even sure she had much in the way of skills. Why would the Grand master of mordecai take in someone not truly a mordecai? There were many questions unanswered in her official write up and Zannrick wondered why the grand master hadn't been replaced a lot sooner for atrocities such as
this.But then he saw the woman and it only solidified his ill thoughts towards Artorias.
"Fade Rylian, I presume?" Zannrick said, standing stiff and at attention before her cell. she was lucky. This cell was reserved for nobles and was at least a step above the other, rotting gut cells that littered the capital.
"I'm here to report to you of your probation, that your skills aiding the crown will not be ignored but your allegiances will be further tested before your sentence is verified. You will not be presumed innocent, nor guilty, and will remain as my charge until it is decreed by myself, or the Grand Duke himself, whether or not you will remain as part of the Grand Duke's intimate network of warriors. You have the chance to refute, but should you do so, you will be tried in the courts against not only your own instances of foul play while in the kingdom of connlaoth, but also how your actions and that of the former grand master might have been coordinated. The Grand Duke has given you the choice to confess now or allow yourself to prove your worth and remain in his alliance as you have been well institutionalized prior to the former Grand master's accusations. Do you understand what this means?"
He stared down at the dark haired woman with judgement, his own cold, ice blue eyes in heavy contrast to her cold, blood colored red ones.