It is bo harder than it must be for you. Or the others here that are separated by the Empire. Or, even the people in Gry Abania.

[ It mayhap look as if she is belittling her own struggles, but, Alkaid truly does not want her heartache to overshadow what those in Doma or Gry Abania suffer from. Aymeric still lives as far as she is aware. Her sister is beside her. War has yet to take the most important people to her. That cannot be said of those around her here.

She smiles at her sister. A hand raises and rests on top of K'thisru's sister. ] You would be excited for the Nadaam.