Laighean's response was a little more emotional and bitter than he intended, but he couldn't help it, "At least she lived long enough t' be able t' make sooch a choice. The last Aeronans were 'ardly given tha'. They spent most of their lives fightin' joost t' survive ,but when they thought they'd seen an end t' the fightin', they ended up cursed an' damned t' fade away from existence an' from history."
" The Queen lost her husband, three children an' then 'ad t' watch 'er survivin' children an' the whole kingdom slowly decay an' turn t' ghosts. They dinnae die...they existed for centuries , hundreds of years in a lifeless , light-less , cheerless realm where many o' th' senses failed them. Taste, touch, smell, hearing and some even lost their sight. They could nae feel the warmth of an embrace, nor the chill of a blustery fall day, could nae the taste the food they consumed ,they could nae smell th' flowers. They could nae see a smile or hear a child's laughter."
"One by one, they were consumed by the curse that their ancestors 'ad brought on them. They became victims of loneliness and despair because there was nothing they knew that they could do to save themselves from what was to befall them. Slowly, the Aeronans lost not just their physical feelings, they lost their 'earts an'...ultimately their souls. An' now their kingdom lies in ruins and the stories that are left to remember them by are a grossly exaggerate and disrespect history. It's insulting and tragic that in just a couple hundred years, Aerona is little more than a myth told for the amusement of foreigners."
((Poor Aella. She has to deal with an angry, angsty Laighean!))